- Sep 10, 2010
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Ok last week my motherboard failed after I was having issues with items randomly deciding to or no to boot up with the computer till it just finally gave up. (See prior post). Found a huge burn spot on the rear of the board going from the area around the PCI blocks to the bios block, with a few arc sparks to the case..
I got all my new equipment today, Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, and a new Challenger Case. Rebuild went great, transferred everything to the new computer case from my old, plugged it in and marvelous, it fired up without any issues! Got into Windows, it said it needed to update some drivers, I agreed, I had to reregister Microsoft Office for some reason, then it pops up asking for my Windows key. I dug it out, entered it, it said "invalid key", went thru the phone thing where it gives you a new key after you rattle off a hug string of numbers, and you get a huge string of numbers back. All that went all okay and was successful. I then had to restart the computer to apply changes and I left the room for a second to come back to an EER2EER3 on my screen. So I popped in my Ubuntu USB drive and rebooted.
Upon getting into Ubuntu with no issues, I saw only my Partition come up with my old OS. HP branded BS version of Vista. But my main drive was nowhere to be found. Went to their Command prompt and used "sudo gparted" command and lo and behold it finally found the main drive, with a list of flags about being corrupt and damaged sectors, messed around a bit and could not access any of my files other then I noted the allocation size of used space was way less then I recall 256MB, should be dang near 500 GB of used space..
Exited and rebooted with my Windows 8 recovery USB in the slot, I either got disk is locked or unable to find os, and even got one where it said that I need to chose which OS to recover, going thru trying to restore, recover and reset Windows 8. Went to the CMD prompt and it booted right to X??? showed Windows with a basic set of files, C: was the USB drive, D: was the small Partition, and X: has windows on it.. I tried doing a few things like bootrec /fixmbr and other and they said no issues found or no OS found.
Well now here is the interesting part after all this now aI reboot and is says no OS found........
I was one of the people who waited up half the night for WIndows 8 to release because I hated Vista, I downloaded it to a USB drive, paid the $39.99 or what ever it was and did clean install, to get rid of the HP garbage littering my machine. But I guess its still considered an upgrade right??
So what happens now? Am I SOL? Do I have to spend $200 on a hard copy of Windows 8? About half tempted on just installing Ubantu to the computer if only a few of the programs I used could work with it. I have used Ubantu for years at work and am fairly proficient with it, heck even a family member walked in when I had it up on my screen and said thats cool, what is that program..LOL
So whats the consensus my friends??? Hate to spend another 200 this close to the holidays...
I got all my new equipment today, Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, and a new Challenger Case. Rebuild went great, transferred everything to the new computer case from my old, plugged it in and marvelous, it fired up without any issues! Got into Windows, it said it needed to update some drivers, I agreed, I had to reregister Microsoft Office for some reason, then it pops up asking for my Windows key. I dug it out, entered it, it said "invalid key", went thru the phone thing where it gives you a new key after you rattle off a hug string of numbers, and you get a huge string of numbers back. All that went all okay and was successful. I then had to restart the computer to apply changes and I left the room for a second to come back to an EER2EER3 on my screen. So I popped in my Ubuntu USB drive and rebooted.
Upon getting into Ubuntu with no issues, I saw only my Partition come up with my old OS. HP branded BS version of Vista. But my main drive was nowhere to be found. Went to their Command prompt and used "sudo gparted" command and lo and behold it finally found the main drive, with a list of flags about being corrupt and damaged sectors, messed around a bit and could not access any of my files other then I noted the allocation size of used space was way less then I recall 256MB, should be dang near 500 GB of used space..
Exited and rebooted with my Windows 8 recovery USB in the slot, I either got disk is locked or unable to find os, and even got one where it said that I need to chose which OS to recover, going thru trying to restore, recover and reset Windows 8. Went to the CMD prompt and it booted right to X??? showed Windows with a basic set of files, C: was the USB drive, D: was the small Partition, and X: has windows on it.. I tried doing a few things like bootrec /fixmbr and other and they said no issues found or no OS found.
Well now here is the interesting part after all this now aI reboot and is says no OS found........
I was one of the people who waited up half the night for WIndows 8 to release because I hated Vista, I downloaded it to a USB drive, paid the $39.99 or what ever it was and did clean install, to get rid of the HP garbage littering my machine. But I guess its still considered an upgrade right??
So what happens now? Am I SOL? Do I have to spend $200 on a hard copy of Windows 8? About half tempted on just installing Ubantu to the computer if only a few of the programs I used could work with it. I have used Ubantu for years at work and am fairly proficient with it, heck even a family member walked in when I had it up on my screen and said thats cool, what is that program..LOL
So whats the consensus my friends??? Hate to spend another 200 this close to the holidays...
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