wellllll, shit.

[fido123]

Re: wellllll, shit.

I'd double check to see if it's in the right SATA socket. I'm not an expert in this kind of stuff specifically but that's my best guess. ElRayford would be better suited to awnser that. If Linux installs on it, it's the disk. Call them up, and if it still doesn't work I would demand your money back. It's crminal to charge you for something you already bought. Next time find the sticker on your computer and download the free .iso of Windows Microsoft offers. That may not boot because they may have installed some proprietary bullshit on your BIOS that makes it so you can only use "THEIR" disks. In that case when you're done with that laptop chuck it through their corperate office front door for being such dick****s.

EDIT: Oh yeah it's a laptop. Change where the hardrive connects.

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

Re: wellllll, shit.

I feel your pain. My external harddrive, my backup, crashed this summer. As of right now I'm calling it a complete loss, though I haven't really looked into replacing it or pulling any data from it. I'll be mad about losing ~450gbs of data that I had stored, but the worst part is the 8 years of Stepmania backups that I no longer have. A lot of files which were one-of-a-kind or very very rare files that I probably wouldn't be able to get back.

Best of luck getting everything up and running properly. Also, please note your feelings of Mint after putting some time into it. I've been thinking about giving it a test however I haven't really taken the time to just do it.

[Choofers]

Re: wellllll, shit.

Got Linux up and running, I don't know why I never switched lol, I already love Mint.

@fido: I didn't know I could download a windows iso lol, the sticker on my computer is still readable so I'd probably do that next week (thinking about buying a smaller hard drive for windows since I really don't want to learn how to use Wine rofl)

ps flash is running really well on my computer, I think my offset changed a bit though.

[fido123]

Re: wellllll, shit.

You don't need to buy a new hardrive. Before I got my SSD I simply had three partitions like this:

=========================
|  1 |       2      | 3 |
=========================

1:
Size: 30GB
Filesystem: NTFS
OS: Windows

2:
Size: 400GB
Filesystem: NTFS
OS: None

3:
Size: 50GB
Filesystem: EXT4
OS: Linux

My Linux would usually consist of three partitions like this:

1:
Size: 50GB
Filesystem: EXT4
Mountpoint: /
Type: Primary

2:
Size: 2GB
Filesystem: Swap
Mountpoint: N/A
Type: Logical

3:
Size: 300MB
Filesystem: EXT2
Mountpoint: /boot
Type: Logical

Makes for a faster boot and I only have 2GB of RAM so 2GB of what you could think of "virtual memory" would be available in case I ran out. Linux can read NTFS filesystems but Windows can't read any Linux filesystems. For this reason I put Windows and Linux on their own partitions, and keep all files such as music, applications, movies, and pretty much everything on my large ~418GB NTFS partition.



tl;dir: You don't need 2 hardrives to boot 2 OS's.


EDIT: Keep in mind in case you want to do any partitioning stuff later that you can only have 4 primary partitions, or 3 primarys and an extended like in my suggestion. Unless primary or extended partitions were deleted, you could only make as many logical parittions you want in the fixed size of the 2.3GB extended partition so it would be pretty much useless. I've been using this partition table for years and ****ing love it. Whenever I reformat any of my OS's all my files are there and in the case of Windows all my applications are still installed. Linux applications wouldn't run too well on an NTFS file system.