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  Aug 10 2009, 09:22 PM
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I have an Hp Pavillion 533w(its a 9 or 10-year old computer)
I currently have 512 mb RAM 160 GB and 80 GB 7200 rpm seagate hdds. TriGem 2002052 (Glendale) motherboard Celeron 2.0 GHz-400 MHz Front side-Socket mPGA478 processor I had a dual boot of Windows XP pro and CENT OS 5 using GRUB boot Loader(which I had formatted my hard drives and deleted).I have tried instaling Windows XP Pro, Crystal XP, and Ubuntu 7.04 and9.04. Everytime I got the same problem. It runs the install.It goes through copying files and all that.It asks me to restart the computer and I do(I remove the disc like it asked), The computer reboots and all I get is Operating System not found.I rebooted the computer from the ubuntu live cds and all the files are on the hard drive I specified(the 160 GB).I believe it could possibly be the motherboard or the bios because when I reboot the computer and run BIOS setup neither of the HDDs show up.But, my CD-RW and DVD-RW drives do. I'm stumped and have been working on this about a month now. Any help would be amazing. |
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druryr416 Problems installing Ubuntu Aug 10 2009, 09:22 PM
jephree If the install CDs see your drives your BIOS must ... Aug 10 2009, 09:35 PM druryr416 yea.thats what im doing now. Aug 10 2009, 09:38 PM jephree If you mean you are now running off the Live CD I... Aug 10 2009, 09:45 PM druryr416 ill try in a bit and repost after. Aug 10 2009, 09:46 PM druryr416 I tried XP and Ubuntu that way....it just repeated... Aug 11 2009, 01:29 PM jephree I am assuming by the age of your computer that the... Aug 11 2009, 06:06 PM druryr416 they are IDE. Aug 11 2009, 07:22 PM jephree I would try KillDisk to remove the old GRUB comple... Aug 11 2009, 07:30 PM druryr416 i already did CMOS.I'm gonna try the killdisk ... Aug 11 2009, 10:06 PM jephree KillDisk is a boot disk. Either floppy or CD.
You... Aug 11 2009, 10:10 PM druryr416 is there anything free I can put on a usb flash dr... Aug 12 2009, 12:00 AM jephree Same link:
http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.h... Aug 12 2009, 06:32 PM druryr416 I installed it to a floppy using oa different comp... Aug 12 2009, 06:37 PM jephree At this point I would physically remove the drives... Aug 12 2009, 06:46 PM druryr416 im thinking its the motherboard because if i remem... Aug 12 2009, 06:48 PM druryr416 also when im running the ubuntu live cd it will pi... Aug 12 2009, 06:50 PM jephree Jumper info should be on the top of the hard drive... Aug 12 2009, 07:02 PM druryr416 i opened up the BIOS setup numerous times and it ... Aug 12 2009, 07:05 PM jephree And yet are you saying these drives show up under ... Aug 12 2009, 07:08 PM druryr416 no, Ubuntu read the drives.I was running the Live ... Aug 12 2009, 07:12 PM
jephree Strange; but interesting.
I would set your CD dri... Aug 12 2009, 07:17 PM |
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