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Linux after Win 7

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sanju_nlp81 Original post #1
Mar 22, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Well one of my clients HP DV4 notebook came with pre-installed win 7 home premium. He installed Fedora core on that to have a try. After that, neither Acronis nor gparted can access the hdd not tell of any other bootable disc. What to do ???
thetechfreak
thetechfreak #2
Mar 23, 2010 at 10:31 AM
Does both Win 7 & Fedora work?
debsuvra
debsuvra #3
Mar 23, 2010 at 5:54 PM
sanju_nlp81 said:
Well one of my clients HP DV4 notebook came with pre-installed win 7 home premium. He installed Fedora core on that to have a try. After that, neither Acronis nor gparted can access the hdd not tell of any other bootable disc. What to do ???
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Are you saying that the HDD became undetectable? What's there on Gparted? Is it showing some partitions? Perhaps when installing Fedora, he didn't go well through GRUB configuration and messed up the boot sector. Post the Gparted screenshot if possible.