Kubuntu hoses Windows on HP Pavilion A810n
Douglas Phillipson
douglas at intermind.net
Wed Aug 1 02:03:02 UTC 2007
>>
>> Not good, have you booted up the live disc and taken a look at the
>> partition table there to see what's up ?
>>
>
> I used BootItNG to resize the NTFS partition. There is a 7mb Fat32
> partition. I installed Kubuntu, it booted fine but Windows would not
> boot. Then I just tried to reset the MBR with BootItNG, which I have
> done a dozen imes before on other PC's, and it restored Windows fully,
> but not now. Even the (F10) Restore System key doesn't work. Has it
> now become dangerous to install Linux?
>
> Doug P
>
Adn of course you no longer get recovery CD's anymore. I have installed
dozens of Kubuntu systems safely in the past, My level of confidence
that I would not hose someones Windows installation has now been shattered!
Doug P
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