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[SOLVED] Faulty driver broke my pc

Hi, Cayden,

Is the Boot Flag enabled on the SDCard's VFAT partition? You might want to see if that is true and try again.

I take it you don't have a DVD disc that you can burn an Ubuntu LiveCD ISO image to?

I would have suggested that you use the SDCard only as a VFAT storage partition to copy your files to lifeboat them, and burn an Ubuntu LiveCD ISO image to a DVD and use the DVD to boot from; making sure you have the SDCard plugged in when you boot to the LiveCD so you don't have to worry about it seeing it.

Hope that helps some...
 
I'm honestly not sure what you're talking about. I used diskpart.exe to create a partition and lable the SD card, then using Windows I formatted it to FAT32 with 4096 byte allocation (I think), then from the laptop's hard drive I ran the Ubuntu installation and installed it into the SD Card, from there I attempted to boot into it and it worked using the laptop. So I never saw any option that mentioned a boot flag, VFAT partition or any of that.

I believe I have some old 700 mb CD-R`s lying around, but nothing fits on those, or is there a Linux distro that does?
 
So far a little success! I had gotten Ubuntu to load live on my dekstop using an SD card! Now I completely unplugged all SATA devices and turned off the SATA controller just as a precaution, so I can't install it right now but I'll fool around on the live disc for a few minutes to see if anything's wrong and update you guys. I'm so close to success I can taste it!

I can not imagine what I'd do without Linux right now!

edit 1: Plugged in just one drive, since I don't want to risk Ubuntu removing the data on the second drive during installation. So far so good, going to try installing it now.

Did I mention right now I love Linux? And i've been a diehard Windows guy since the beginning.

Edit 2: hit first snag. When I go to install Ubuntu, at the 'installation type' screen I can't select anything. Hitting install now gives me the error: No root file system is defined. Please correct this form in the partitioning menu." I am going to try a blank spare hard drive instead.


edit 3: installation started successfully on new drive. Will update if it finishes or anything else.


edit 4: SUCCESS!!! I'm now running Ubuntu! I'm going to try to install the other two hard drives and see what happens and update you. But now we can FINALLY consider this issue solved.
 
Excellent! Glad you got it going! I was exhausted last night. Had just gotten home from a very long day and lots of driving and didn't get home till after 9PM ET. I should have waited till today to try to respond. LOL!

For some reason (blaming exhaustion) I thought you were only trying to lifeboat data not simply installing Ubuntu.
 
It was, and I succeeded at that due to Writhziden's instructions. After I found out the recovery failed, I had no way to use the drive or the OS, so I resorted to installing Ubuntu.

I have all Western Digital drives, what's the best diagnostics program I can find?
 
Alrighty, I used the tool it told me to and all my disks are healthy. However, my secondary drive apparently has 1 bad sector or waiting to be 'remapped'. This doesn't completely surprise me, I've had issues with this drive in the past.
 

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