tmittelstaedt
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Hi Developers,
I have an HP Pavilion g7-2215dx. I have the factory DVDs (6 of them). I have a Ubuntu 14.04.2 DVD I just downloaded.
EasyBCD is completely unable to make any sense of the partitions and so far I have attempted 4 times to use it and completely scotched disk booting to the point it's impossible to boot anything on the machine. I first thought it was PEBCAK and so I read everything I could about EasyBCD and I'm now convinced it is because program error.
HP's factory recovery disks put a grand total of 4 partitions on the disk if you tell it to recover the disk from scratch (like if the disk crashed):
Windows recovery partiton
EFI boot partition
Windows 8 partition
OEM Recovery partition
If I then proceed to download and install the Windows 8.1 update, then during the installation of that, Microsoft inserts (I would love to know how they do this) yet another logical partition, a Windows 8.1 recovery partition I believe for a total of 5.
I can shrink free space down enough to create ext4 partitons to install Ubuntu. I can then use the BIOS EFI browser to boot either Windows or grub/Ubuntu just fine - even with Secure Boot turned on. But, the laptop always wants to boot into Windows, never into Grub.
The last time I tried using EasyBCD to default grub, the first thing I did as soon as I installed EasyBCD is try to back up the EFI store - and EasyBCD proceeded to wipe it clean. This was after the Ubuntu installer had setup it's boot entries in the EFI partition. After that, Windows would not boot even when attempting to select it from the EFI store using the BIOS.
I have to conclude your program is unaware of this oddball type of partition layout that the HP recovery partitions place on their machines. Probably because you never tested on an HP laptop or whatever.
I'm willing to run any kind of diagnostic on my (now working) machine for you to gather information on the partition layout so you can improve your program. I also made several bcdedit /export backup files of the EFI store while I was rebuilding it the most latest time, one immediately after recovery, one immediately after installation of windows 8.1, and one after installing Ubuntu. Your welcome to those also.
But I'm no longer willing to try running any copy of easybcd on the machine.
Just let me know.
I have an HP Pavilion g7-2215dx. I have the factory DVDs (6 of them). I have a Ubuntu 14.04.2 DVD I just downloaded.
EasyBCD is completely unable to make any sense of the partitions and so far I have attempted 4 times to use it and completely scotched disk booting to the point it's impossible to boot anything on the machine. I first thought it was PEBCAK and so I read everything I could about EasyBCD and I'm now convinced it is because program error.
HP's factory recovery disks put a grand total of 4 partitions on the disk if you tell it to recover the disk from scratch (like if the disk crashed):
Windows recovery partiton
EFI boot partition
Windows 8 partition
OEM Recovery partition
If I then proceed to download and install the Windows 8.1 update, then during the installation of that, Microsoft inserts (I would love to know how they do this) yet another logical partition, a Windows 8.1 recovery partition I believe for a total of 5.
I can shrink free space down enough to create ext4 partitons to install Ubuntu. I can then use the BIOS EFI browser to boot either Windows or grub/Ubuntu just fine - even with Secure Boot turned on. But, the laptop always wants to boot into Windows, never into Grub.
The last time I tried using EasyBCD to default grub, the first thing I did as soon as I installed EasyBCD is try to back up the EFI store - and EasyBCD proceeded to wipe it clean. This was after the Ubuntu installer had setup it's boot entries in the EFI partition. After that, Windows would not boot even when attempting to select it from the EFI store using the BIOS.
I have to conclude your program is unaware of this oddball type of partition layout that the HP recovery partitions place on their machines. Probably because you never tested on an HP laptop or whatever.
I'm willing to run any kind of diagnostic on my (now working) machine for you to gather information on the partition layout so you can improve your program. I also made several bcdedit /export backup files of the EFI store while I was rebuilding it the most latest time, one immediately after recovery, one immediately after installation of windows 8.1, and one after installing Ubuntu. Your welcome to those also.
But I'm no longer willing to try running any copy of easybcd on the machine.
Just let me know.