Recent content by FrustratedX

I figured my restore disks would have the same effect on the boot manager but I still couldn't get past the grub boot error but if a mod sez it'll work i'll try a retail version of win 7 boot and hopefully that will work. Thx Z/Z

Dell Inspiron 1564 dual boot: Backtrack 5r1 and win7homepremium/8 Started innocently enough with me partitioning a drive to make space so I could test win7starter. I reboot to finalize the partition and I get the grub rescue error. I tried the super grub2 disk thing to no effect. I say screw...

Take it easy Mike... I figured since my issue has been fixed I'd share it with everyone else to conclude the thread. A British fellow on a linux forum told me to use partmagic with unetbootin and I formatted my entire netbook's hard drive in NTFS and win 7 starter loaded beautifully (credit to...

I highly doubt any recovery partition survived my "enthusiasm" but I will try...thx... btw my first computer was a tandy with 128k total memory and I was programming in basic before ms-dos was a wet dream. I am a little out of date and entirely too foolhardy with my computers :)

Well ummm....I sorta tried to...ummm...install xp from usb...with less than positive results but in the process I had to use fdisk to make a small logical drive and a fat 32 primary drive and in the process all the ntfs drives got ummm... "stananked" or eliminated. There might be fragments of...

I have 2 other computers and an ethernet port if that helps but no usb optical drive. I can access the bios menu and my win 7 setup does run but when it gets to the point where I have to pick a partition to install to it cannot detect any (I think it only recognizes parts formatted in ntfs). Z/Z

Long story short... I have an Acer Aspire One D257-1880 with what appears to be a hard drive with no usable partitions for a reinstall of win 7 starter retail. Please don't ask how that happened. I am not positive but I think the hard drive needs to be partitioned in NTFS. Can anyone help me...