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M. Master Cheater
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:07 pm Post subject: Installed linux to test something |
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And now I can't boot into windows
Error: No such device
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Cryoma Member of the Year
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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it's software not hardware
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M. Master Cheater
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Cryoma wrote: | it's software not hardware
durr | durr
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1929394839292057839194958 Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| M. wrote: | | Cryoma wrote: | it's software not hardware
durr | durr | What you said doesn't make sense.
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M. Master Cheater
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| konr wrote: | | M. wrote: | | Cryoma wrote: | it's software not hardware
durr | durr | What you said doesn't make sense. | I know it's a fucking software fault, at what point did I say it's hardware?
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like you fucked your MBR.
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Slugsnack Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Seems like a hardware problem. Try to do a power cycle of all the peripherals on your machine. What this means in noobspeak is to take out each of your 'devices' such as mouse, keyboard, etc. Leave it for a few seconds for the hardware prefetch cache to flush then plug it back in. Let us know how it goes!!
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1929394839292057839194958 Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| M. wrote: | | konr wrote: | | M. wrote: | | Cryoma wrote: | it's software not hardware
durr | durr | What you said doesn't make sense. | I know it's a fucking software fault, at what point did I say it's hardware? | Then why is it booting to windows that's the problem..? If the harddrive isn't there then how do you even get the choice?
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Slugsnack Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| lol dude it's linux, not tf2
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M. Master Cheater
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| konr wrote: | | M. wrote: | | konr wrote: | | M. wrote: | | Cryoma wrote: | it's software not hardware
durr | durr | What you said doesn't make sense. | I know it's a fucking software fault, at what point did I say it's hardware? | Then why is it booting to windows that's the problem..? If the harddrive isn't there then how do you even get the choice? | The hard drive is there, I'm running linux off it right now.
error: no such device: 6e364ca8364c72df
error: invalid signature
Failed to boot both default and fallback entries.
Is what i get when I select windows in the grub menu
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Slugsnack Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| lol shit i just realised connor genuinely thinks no such device means the harddrive is missing
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you have windows 7? If so follow slugs advice because I had similar problems when dualbooting sometimes when I booted up and had my external harddrive pluged in I got a load of errors and it wouldnt load. but after cycling and doing pretty much what slug said. and then booting with out the hd plugged in I was able to start with no errors.
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Cryoma Member of the Year
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| konr wrote: | | M. wrote: | | konr wrote: | | M. wrote: | | Cryoma wrote: | it's software not hardware
durr | durr | What you said doesn't make sense. | I know it's a fucking software fault, at what point did I say it's hardware? | Then why is it booting to windows that's the problem..? If the harddrive isn't there then how do you even get the choice? |
. . . There's this little thing called BIOS, it manages your hardware and throws boot errors when things go wrong.
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Slugsnack Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| did you make sure to wait a few seconds? try switching some of the devices around if you have more than 1 usb device plugged in. the usb ports will cache the device drivers of devices previously plugged into them. sometimes these will get corrupted which can lead to a similar problem to what you are experiencing. good luck!!
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