Hi,
I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre computer with one single hard drive, Vista preinstalled, and a hidden Vista recovery partition.
I was having Vista-Ubuntu 9.10-Mint 8 triple boot, using EasyBCD when Ubuntu was installed; everything was working fine. After adding another operating system, the general result was lost access to the recovery partition and Windows Boot manager screen switched to a new one.
Details as follow,
Recently installed Fedora KDE 12 for 4-booting, selecting install Grub to the Fedora partition, but the hard drive didn't boot.
By using the Vista Recovery Disc (thanks for that) Vista start-up was repaired, with no existing system found by the disc, and booted up to Vista.
Using EasyBCD deleted-added GRUB 2 (option "Grub isn't installed to MBR" was-is grayed out), being able to 3-boot.
Then updated Ubuntu Grub and Fedora Grub was automatically added to it, allowing 4-booting.
Thus, my system layout is:
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 7.7GB (Vista recovery). Note: Ticked as bootable
/dev/sda2 70GB (Vista)
/dev/sda3 Extended
/dev/sda5 10GB (my data)
/dev/sda6 1.4GB (Swap)
/dev/sda7 25GB (Ubuntu)
/dev/sda8 17GB (Mint)
/dev/sda9 200MB (Fedora /boot). Note: Ticked as bootable
/dev/sda10 17GB (Fedora /)
By the way, viewing the Ubuntu Grub screen, noticed that the new single Fedora entry was added in between the two current Vista entries, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, rather than chronologically appended, as were all of the others.
So, by choosing Neosmart Linux at startup, the Ubuntu Grub screen shows two Vista options, /dev/sda1, and /dev/sda2, so that:
1. Selecting Vista /dev/sda1, goes to my current Windows Boot Manager screen in English containing two choices: Vista (recovered), and Neosmart Linux.
2. Selecting Vista /dev/sda2, goes to my previous Windows Boot Manager screen in Spanish, containing two choices: Vista, and Neosmart Linux, and access to the Windows memory diagnostic tool.
It can be noticed that the Vista option on path (1) above is tagged as (recovered), while on path (2) it isn't.
I'd really appreciate your help to get back access to the recovery partition, and my usual Windows Boot Manager screen in Spanish.
Thank you very much.
Sheers
I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre computer with one single hard drive, Vista preinstalled, and a hidden Vista recovery partition.
I was having Vista-Ubuntu 9.10-Mint 8 triple boot, using EasyBCD when Ubuntu was installed; everything was working fine. After adding another operating system, the general result was lost access to the recovery partition and Windows Boot manager screen switched to a new one.
Details as follow,
Recently installed Fedora KDE 12 for 4-booting, selecting install Grub to the Fedora partition, but the hard drive didn't boot.
By using the Vista Recovery Disc (thanks for that) Vista start-up was repaired, with no existing system found by the disc, and booted up to Vista.
Using EasyBCD deleted-added GRUB 2 (option "Grub isn't installed to MBR" was-is grayed out), being able to 3-boot.
Then updated Ubuntu Grub and Fedora Grub was automatically added to it, allowing 4-booting.
Thus, my system layout is:
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 7.7GB (Vista recovery). Note: Ticked as bootable
/dev/sda2 70GB (Vista)
/dev/sda3 Extended
/dev/sda5 10GB (my data)
/dev/sda6 1.4GB (Swap)
/dev/sda7 25GB (Ubuntu)
/dev/sda8 17GB (Mint)
/dev/sda9 200MB (Fedora /boot). Note: Ticked as bootable
/dev/sda10 17GB (Fedora /)
By the way, viewing the Ubuntu Grub screen, noticed that the new single Fedora entry was added in between the two current Vista entries, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, rather than chronologically appended, as were all of the others.
So, by choosing Neosmart Linux at startup, the Ubuntu Grub screen shows two Vista options, /dev/sda1, and /dev/sda2, so that:
1. Selecting Vista /dev/sda1, goes to my current Windows Boot Manager screen in English containing two choices: Vista (recovered), and Neosmart Linux.
2. Selecting Vista /dev/sda2, goes to my previous Windows Boot Manager screen in Spanish, containing two choices: Vista, and Neosmart Linux, and access to the Windows memory diagnostic tool.
It can be noticed that the Vista option on path (1) above is tagged as (recovered), while on path (2) it isn't.
I'd really appreciate your help to get back access to the recovery partition, and my usual Windows Boot Manager screen in Spanish.
Thank you very much.
Sheers
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