On 10/09/2012 07:10 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Friends,
After years of providing services to students for free in installing
Fedora, I hit a wall this afternoon and don't quite know how to get out
of it.
The offending laptop is a HP Pavilion DV6 with Windows 7 Home Premium
on it. We paritioned the HDD using Windows 7 creating a separate
partition and went off to install Fedora on the new partition from a
Live CD. Installation went off as a breeze, however, after reboot all
hell broke loose.
Grub did not show up, what is worse is that a broken Windows Error
Recovery did with the Launch Startup Repair, etc. However, it asks for
the original installation disc for Windows 7 which the retailer never
provided.
I tried using PW o fix the MBR as mentioned here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/135486-how-do-i-repair-mbr-without-disk.html
but no luck: it goes back to this screen.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this? I feel
embarrassed and responsible for this student's fancy laptop now. He
needs to have W7 to use the BluRay so we were thinking of a dual boot
originally, but at this point, I am trying to salvage whatever.
Ranjan
You need to contact HP and they will provide you
with the recovery windows DVD. I have run into a similar problem.
After fixing your windows, your Linux Grub will be
overwritten, and windows booter will be in place.
I suggest that you download and install the Fedora normal ISO:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-17-i386-DVD.iso
< this is for 32bit
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-17-x86_64-DVD.iso
< this is for 64bit
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