So, I thought I’d give Linux a try on my laptop alongside Win7.
Yesterday I tried a live install of Ubuntu 11.10 because it’s supposed to be the easiest to start with. No go. It would boot to black and took modifying startup commands to get it running. Even then, it wouldn’t install necessary drivers to function properly and exhibited all-around erratic behavior. So that was out.
Today I thought I’d try Debian 6, because it’s supposed to be more stable. The live install disk wouldn’t run, so I had to use an actual install to try it. But it wouldn’t recognize the partition I had prepared for it, so I had to make a new one in the installer. But it gave me an error message in the middle of the process.
I had to use a Windows repair disc to reboot and found that ALL my partitions were gone. HP Tools, System Backup, everything. Even my restore points were gone. The Disk Manager doesn’t display any Hard Drive, and in the place where it should be just says ‘invalid.’
My main drive shows up in My Computer, and I seem to be able to read and write to it, but none of my other drives show up.
So… wtf?
I can recommend reading the installation guide, especially section 3.2. A bit late maybe.
Yeah, thanks, hehehe