On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:55:26PM -0700, rubboe...@gmail.com wrote: > But how can I reinstall it if the onlt thing I can do/see is to eneter my > disk password? Could you explain to me how you did that? >
You haven't given any detail on how you installed Qubes, what options you selected, or whether you had read the documentation. Nor have you said if you've been able to translate your password into input on qwerty key settings. If you installed Qubes alongside the Windows, then you should be able to boot to Qubes, edit the grub config and end up with a dual boot set-up. If you simply replaced the Windows installation, then you will have to reinstall it, if you insist on Windows. If you took a backup, then you have no problem. If your PC came with Windows preinstalled, then it is likely that there is a rescue partition you can use to reinstall Windows - you can often activate this by hitting a key combination during boot - check your documentation. If you deleted this or can no longer activate it, then you will have to reinstall from some other media - you may be able to boot from DVD or USB, but you will need a Windows install image: you may , or may not, have one of these. If your PC was oem licensed, then almost certainly not, so you will have to acquire one. In general, you should be able to pre-empt the boot and get to your BIOS by mashing keys as the computer boots. It varies, but often smashing DEL repeatedly, or F11, as the PC starts up, may get you to some interrupt, and with luck you should be able to select a boot medium. I don't know what level of Linux knowledge you have, but you could try booting from a liveUSB distro and inspecting the disk to see what partitions you have there. Give us more information on what you did, and what you know, and we may be able to help. As to the suggestion that Windows would be "safer" than Qubes, that's a completely different discussion, best left to another time. Lets focus on getting you working again. unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170414153855.GA29623%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
