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On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 21:02 +0000, Stephen Cutts wrote: > Tell us how grub fails? > > I have no idea, it literally doesn't even load. > > > > What errors are you getting. At what point. What are the disk > called, > and labelled at this point. > > At this point (assuming by disk you mean the HDD) which is simply > coming up with the lable for the weston digital caviar green 500gb > hdd, not much else. > > Seems likely to me it is trying to install to the wrong > partition, or > the wrong disk. > > Not quite likely as I've been telling it to install to that specific > HDD and it's been doing so as I can see the files there on a live > disc. > If you have three disks Can you take the one you want to put the new OS on and plug it in the Primary Header (assuming IDE) set the IDE jumper to Master, unplug the other two and install your OS Then when it works OK (as it will it linux) Plug in the other two and set as Slave/ secondary disks and do the boot selection out of the Bios (most use F12 on boot ) to get in to Windose. If that all works OK then you can play with the Grub loader to load any OS you have. > -- Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Ten Years in the Making! www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq