[ubuntu-in] Urgent - Ubuntu Install breaks and Crashes Dell Inspiron

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Narendra Diwate
<narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> <Snip>
> | what about a linux reinstall - would that kind of work to show up the lost
> partitions
>
> Might give it a try. IF your friend allows you to try. It really feels bad
> when such things happen. You more or less feel guilty of f*cking up a good
> machine.
>
> On a unrelated note, i have heard that PC's that come with a recovery/hidden
> partition are the worse problem givers when installing linux for dual boot
> using GRUB or lilo. So best to allow the Win boot loader to be the one to
> dual boot.

I did a reinstall, and it worked, it recovered everything, then we
first went into windows and guess what happens, windows does not
shutdown, we do a forced shutdown and try and restart, so its back to
square 1.

am thinking
a>) hardware issue
b) wincedows  - is screwing up big time

am going to a 2 re-install , after which we will run the recovery -
wincedows wallah and then see that what happens

ram