My mom's laptop completely shitted itself and cant even take in windows recovery cds without doing a BSOD loop after. So im gonna see if i can install linux mint on it. I dont know anything about linux but it shouldnt be too hard. If this doesnt work though idk, maybe the harddrive is corrupted or something, then what do i do...
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your thoughts?
The hard drive might have bad sectors, but corrupted data isn't a concern. You're going to wipe it all anyway. You're not going to recover anything into Linux.
And if the HDD is really fubar then you'll order a 60-120GB SSD online, pop it in for her and she can enjoy a faster computer.
Also maybe instead of wiping and going to Linux, you can try wiping and doing a fresh install of Windows. She'll probably appreciate that.
something happened :^)
don't be surprised if you can't access the drive even after installing linux. linux didn't like my windows drives and keep doing weird things like having them disappear or not be accessible
That's not a "Windows drive" problem. Either you didn't properly format the drive before installing Linux or it was a physically defective drive which Windows had been covering for by knowing to ignore the fucked up parts. A healthy drive would not look any different than a bare drive off of a warehouse shelf otherwise, though.
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Im trying to wipe with darik's boot and nuke, the thing cant detect my burned cd or usb. But it loads a burned cd of linux mint... Im looking online and maybe its something to do with sata configuration?
If you can boot into Linux Mint, you can wipe the drive from the terminal emulator. Also the installation process should, at some point, prompt you to format and repartition drives anyway.
Install Gentoo
>your thoughts?
if you love your mom, buy her a MacBook.
If i wipe it clean will i loose RAID data?
You will lose everything. You're not even going to keep the same filesystem.
oh good, cause i was dicking around earlier and reset the main hdd to non raid, when i start it up it looks how a wiped drive should look
GIVE IT BACK AIRWRECKA
Friends don't let friends casually RAID.
Unless you're going to run dual SSDs in RAID 0 like some sort of wannabe badass, just leave those days behind you.
it was all setup as raid0 by default, the main drive (1tb) and the 2 small recovery drives or whatever theyre for.
Let's pretend that never happened.
Also are they two small recovery drives or small recovery partitions alongside the big one on a single HDD? I'm thinking it's probably the latter. If that's the case then it's a good as time as any to get the idea that "partitions = drives" into the garbage. Makes things confusing.
they prob partitions, anyway the thing still wont boot from the usb stick with the boot n nuke. The light from the usb goes on for a bit then off and it loads this screen
Install Gentoo
That can happen, among other reasons, because the USB was not prepared in the correct way to make it bootable. Just presenting that as a possibility.
I'm also still not sure why you wouldn't just use the Mint CD to run installation and let the installer wipe your stuff.
Bonus points: when doing that, don't touch the recovery partitions. You might still be able to salvage Windows later on once you wipe the main partition for your Linux install.
i thought i had to wipe before installing, but ill try it. i did the usb as instructed, used 3 of them, same shit. I have some windows 8 cds so i dont think i should worry much about the partitions.
im gonna try installing mint now though
Oh if you have other Windows recovery media then fuck it, no sweat.
Yeah you don't have to wipe before installation. All modern OS installers come with formatting and partitioning functionality built in. Life's easy.
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sweet. so i booted the cd, i install in oem mode?
You got it bossman.
forgot to say thanks to you Sup Forumsentlemen
Try recovera live usb/CD to see if you can get the data off the drive if you havent wiped it yet.
looks like you're getting a hardware failure from the intel storage driver.
GL with linux, I don't think it will fix the issue. Try resetting bios to safe defaults.
HP
fucking HP
FUCCCCK HP, worst company
gligar13 probably has the answer. go ask him.