Forum and Computers HELP! thread and Siddals bar

if you get the chance I would recommend getting an external hard drive that you can back up your stuff on .... you can get 1TB drives very cheaply these days.. ~£65

 

I've got a 1tb hard drive, it's useful for my music and films if I'm reinstalling windows or ubuntu (again!), I've used all I need to and it's not even a quarter of its capacity!

 

I see that some posters have their age on there profile whats all this about then ???

 

You can edit your profile to show your age (if you want to)

 

My laptop just crashed, and it's saying there is no file system on it!

 

Make sure you have the power connected.



BE WARNED YOU WILL LOSE ANYTHING STORED ON THE LAPTOP!

Turn off the laptop.
Then turn it back on and hit ALT+F10 (Was the key press last time I did an Acer.)
If you get a Windows restore option try that first! As it should just reinstall windows over your present configuration.

Otherwise it's a full recovery.

You may get a security screen where you type 6 zeros. 000000


It should then ask you which operating system pick it and hit enter.
Leave it to get on with the recovery, you will be asked for regional and language settings along the way.


By the way Jersey how did it crash?
Were you loading software?
Running software?
Transferring data?
Just browsing the web?
The reason I ask is it's unusual for such a new laptop to crash, it can happen later when it's full of junk.

If there is anything desperately important on it you want to save, let me know as there are ways to hopefully recover data.

 

Well, it's sort of my fault...

I had Ubuntu 10.10 on a dual boot with Windows 7, which was fine. I installed a thing called 'unity', which I didn't like, so I deleted the file (stupid, I know)
Windows 7 was fine, but Ubuntu had failed completely. I reinstalled Ubuntu, but changed the partition sizes manually. Obviously, I must have done something wrong, and when I restarted it, it just said error: unknown filesystem. I tried to get rid of the partitions by reinstalling Ubuntu (which worked), then I put in the recovery disk, which said cannot find filesysem.

 

Have you deleted the recovery partition when resizing?
It also sounds like you have toasted your HD MBR!
Does the recovery disk only say can't find file system or are there options?

 

Almost forgot go into your BIOS and make sure boot from CD is used.
In the main menu in BIOS make sure D2D RECOVERY is activated. (This is your ALT+F10 option.)

 

Yes, it's enabled, the error is 0x3ed, and it just says it can't find the filesystem. Ubuntu is working fine though, so it looks like it's only the partition

 

Oh wait, fixed it, the partitions were just a bit ****ed up.

I've learnt my lesson from this...

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Evening all on here, what's the ber of the month in siddall's bar?

 

Hi I used to post on 606, thought i would pop on here and see what the craic was

 

I remeber you well, Mrs Em. So deligthed that you have jumped on the trasnporter to here.

One question: I see you have 36 posts. WTF have you been doing on not606?

 

Newbie to this board......so gan canny on us

 

It's Friday . . . .

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.

She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.'

I bought her some bathroom scales.

 

cheers , very helpful

 

hello all, my first post. I'am more of a reader, so my posts will have big intervals. anyway this post is just to introduce myself. john

 

How do I update my profile? when I joined the site I was a bit lazy and didn't put anything in...now I can't seem to update it