stuck on splash screen -urgent-

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i resized winre and deleted a parition and made a new ext4 one to make room for my lubuntu installation (moving /home)
i restarted and lubuntu froze at the startup screen.
i force restarted and now my pc is stuck at the toshiba splash screen cant press any f keys and cds dont prompt anything.

help please! i dont know what to do
 

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Let's start at the beginning. I'm not sure what winre is that you deleted can you explain that a bit more. Also what was on this partition that you deleted? More information on those two things will help us try and return your system to normal.

Second thing is the cd issue. You need to go into your system bios and change your boot device and put your cd drive as the first option then you should be able to boot any bootable cd and try and fix any problems.
 

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i resized winre and deleted sda 2. it seemed non important and had my old windows installation which i didnt use anymore. there was only one winre.

i tried the cd first thing and it didnt work. however i can boot up into the splashscreen fine and go into the boot selection and into live cd when i take the harddrive out. when its in it dosent work.

i used gparted included in the live cd which probably caused the problem

thanks!

btw the laptop is toshiba satellite pro l40
 

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If it were me I'd boot to the live cd. Install "Boot-Repair" sudo apt-get install boot-repair . Run Boot-Repair and click on advanced and check mark "Repair file systems". Let it run and reboot when it tells you.

However, if it is sticking at the Toshiba screen unless you take out the hard drive I suspect your hard drive itself has a physical problem and the BIOS test failed but since you said " i tried the cd first thing and it didn't work." I'm a little confused. Were you able to get into the BIOS to change the settings? If so then try the boot repair. If not then you need to restart with the live disk and install "testdisk" sudo apt-get install testdisk and see if you can still identify the hard drive and get your data safely off it. The procedure is to accept first options by hitting enter after choosing the drive all the way until you select the partition with your data, hit enter again for a quick search, p will list the files and you will have the option to copy the file you need to another location. You can find info on testdiskhttp://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki
 

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i cant get into the live cd if the hdd is in

 

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i already tried it. t does seem to be a hdd issue. ive going to make a plop manager boot cd and have made an installation of lubuntu on an 8gb usb. the laptop isnt worth the 15 quid for a new hdd so going to live on the usb for now
 

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If you have any data of that HDD then by all means pick up a HDD to USB adapter (Amazon for $8) and then run testdisk from your Flash disk install. If there is any life in your HDD you should be able to recover most if not all of your data. Also, bear in mind that flash disks are not a permanent replacement for a HDD because they have a limited number or read and writes before they die and there's a whole lot of those going on when you use an OS from there. Do not use it that way for long or keep valuable data on it.

 

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can it last a month?
 

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theres a problem. my bios dosent have booting from usb, and boot cd's arent working, only lubuntu live cd. is there a way to boot from usb from the lubuntu live desktop?

 

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Be sure you can't boot from USB. In some BIOSs the USB with a copy of Ubuntu or other OSs shows up as a hard disk. Install Lubuntu onto a flash with startupdisk creator or other installer, no you can't just copy to the flash, and give it a try. I've installed from USB on computers 12 years old so it's not so terribly new tech.
 

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turns out i had to enable legacy usb mod or something. getting an overpowered replacement soon! boxx probably