2009/1/8 Carl D. Sorensen <[email protected]> > On 1/7/09 5:39 PM, "Andrew Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This was a complete disaster for me. I quickly realised that it was > > a dual boot when what I was looking for was a virtual machine. > > > > I uninstalled it. It trashed my machine. I have now reinstalled > > windows four times trying to resurrect , user accounts, etc. > > I have now abandoned hope of fixing it. Hopefully my backups > > are reasonably current. > > > > Use with extreme caution. > > > > Not a happy bunny. > > > > Ouch! > > Did you finish the installation before you uninstalled it?
Yes. I rebooted the machine as saw that it had added an option to boot Ubuntu. that's when I realised that it had made the machine dual boot. > How is your machine trashed? It won't boot, the hard drive isn't recognizable, or what? It looks like it trashed the MBR, the machine couldn't find an OS to boot. No problem I thought, I'll just replace the MBR and it'll all work. Couldn't figure out how to do that using the recovery console. My DOS fu obviously isn't up to it. So I tried to repair the installation instead. It asked me for the admin password. I don't like passwords this machine sits in my room, it's secure, it doesn't need a password. This means I probably gave it a password and then changed my mind. Anyway, I have no idea what password I gave it when I installed it about a year and a half ago. I ended up Reinstalling onto the same disc. If I wasn't trying to get it back the way it was I'd probably have a few less installs. I have a working computer, I'm just going to have to resurrect the user data from somewhere else. > I'm sorry to hear about your problem No worries, stuff happens. andrew
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