Hello from the US
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:28 am
Hey all!
My computer had some issues starting sunday, and due to my ineptness at computing, my vista-ubuntu dual boot is now running mint v 13 (x64 mate). My vista partition was being buggy (even for vista, yes, very very buggy), and I went into ubuntu for the meantime. Unfortunately, my power ran out during an upgrade, and I couldn't boot anywhere. the most important issue was that my grub menu wasn't working (didn't load, as if I deleted it). Note that by this point I had vista working again (too cheap to upgrade, XP doesn't seem to work on it :/ ), and while I could have just installed another bootloader (like the grub menu again), I made the decision to reinstall ubuntu to have some place to fall back to in future scenarios. Since I had nothing important in Ubuntu, I meant to just pop the Ubuntu CD back in, wipe my old partitions for ubuntu, and install it again. But, after I wiped my old partition, somehow I managed to break my partition table?
Anyways, now my harddrive was pretty much screwed over, I could still access files, but I couldn't install anything without having to make a new partition table (and format the whole thing while at it).
I managed to get my files out (long story here), and in a strange twist of fate I decided to go with linux mint instead.
So far I'm not regretting it either.
I'm a really big noob at computers, I'm much better at android. I can't program at all, but seeing that I'm on linux now I might as well start, maybe HTML, bash or java. I get the basics to what terminal is supposed to do, but otherwise I'm pretty helpless at most commands. I made this account so I could ask questions/bother people.
anyways, TL;DR, messed up big time on computer, ended up installing linux mint. Hopefully y'all won't mind me asking questions.
My computer had some issues starting sunday, and due to my ineptness at computing, my vista-ubuntu dual boot is now running mint v 13 (x64 mate). My vista partition was being buggy (even for vista, yes, very very buggy), and I went into ubuntu for the meantime. Unfortunately, my power ran out during an upgrade, and I couldn't boot anywhere. the most important issue was that my grub menu wasn't working (didn't load, as if I deleted it). Note that by this point I had vista working again (too cheap to upgrade, XP doesn't seem to work on it :/ ), and while I could have just installed another bootloader (like the grub menu again), I made the decision to reinstall ubuntu to have some place to fall back to in future scenarios. Since I had nothing important in Ubuntu, I meant to just pop the Ubuntu CD back in, wipe my old partitions for ubuntu, and install it again. But, after I wiped my old partition, somehow I managed to break my partition table?
Anyways, now my harddrive was pretty much screwed over, I could still access files, but I couldn't install anything without having to make a new partition table (and format the whole thing while at it).
I managed to get my files out (long story here), and in a strange twist of fate I decided to go with linux mint instead.
So far I'm not regretting it either.
I'm a really big noob at computers, I'm much better at android. I can't program at all, but seeing that I'm on linux now I might as well start, maybe HTML, bash or java. I get the basics to what terminal is supposed to do, but otherwise I'm pretty helpless at most commands. I made this account so I could ask questions/bother people.
anyways, TL;DR, messed up big time on computer, ended up installing linux mint. Hopefully y'all won't mind me asking questions.
Thanks for joining the forums! That's quite the adventure to get here, sounds a bit frustrating to get from one problem into the next. But you're here now 
