I was trying to do the dual boot thing, Ubuntu linux along with my XP installation I already have and seemed to have buggered my PC up a bit. Heres the story
I have a 100gb drive and have two partitions on it, on 20 which holds my XP OS the the second 80 which was unpartitioned at the time. So I go to install my linux on the 80 gb partition and when I get to the format section, I decided to hold off on the creation of the new partition to do some more research on what Im doing here before I screw something up (heh)
So I remove the CD and when the PC boots back up, my XP partition seemed to be screwed, even though I didnt really touch C:. So I decide to reinstall my copy of XP, however rather than just go over my current installation on C:, I decide to reformat D: (the 80gb half) and put the OS there because I think I may have changed the type from uninitialized to ext. So that goes well, my PC is able to boot, and I see that my first rendition of XP is still working, so I have a dual boot scenario with the new XP on D: and the old, good rev of XP on C:, both at NTFS. I want to get back to my original configuration, so I reformat D: again (just a quick format for now) and its still a NTFS partition, but nothing currently on there. I reboot and I still get the screen asking which OS I want to use. I pick the one I just deleted, and obviously I get some error saying no OS found (duh). So there is only one OS installed at this point, how do I get rid of the screen asking which one I wan to use? Reformat D: again, but do a real format and not just a quickie to erase the disk?
I have a 100gb drive and have two partitions on it, on 20 which holds my XP OS the the second 80 which was unpartitioned at the time. So I go to install my linux on the 80 gb partition and when I get to the format section, I decided to hold off on the creation of the new partition to do some more research on what Im doing here before I screw something up (heh)
So I remove the CD and when the PC boots back up, my XP partition seemed to be screwed, even though I didnt really touch C:. So I decide to reinstall my copy of XP, however rather than just go over my current installation on C:, I decide to reformat D: (the 80gb half) and put the OS there because I think I may have changed the type from uninitialized to ext. So that goes well, my PC is able to boot, and I see that my first rendition of XP is still working, so I have a dual boot scenario with the new XP on D: and the old, good rev of XP on C:, both at NTFS. I want to get back to my original configuration, so I reformat D: again (just a quick format for now) and its still a NTFS partition, but nothing currently on there. I reboot and I still get the screen asking which OS I want to use. I pick the one I just deleted, and obviously I get some error saying no OS found (duh). So there is only one OS installed at this point, how do I get rid of the screen asking which one I wan to use? Reformat D: again, but do a real format and not just a quickie to erase the disk?