Recent content by blobula

Well converting a portion to NTSF proved to be a big waste of time. It didn't work. I removed all partitions and booted into the Windows Install screen. Before clicking no Install Now I opened up the command prompt and ran diskpart and did a clean. It worked. Laptop is currently get a fresh...

Yes that was the issue. I changed BIOS to be CMS instead of UEFI and that immediately loaded the Windows 7 installation cd. Now my issue is the drive was partioned in a GPT format which Windows can't use. Currently I'm reformatting 495GB into NTSF format which is going to take some time...

So the hard drive checked out ok. I tried to format the hard drive but I got a failure message. I then installed Ubuntu on the hard drive just to see if I could install anything which was successful. I put the WIndows 7 cd in and pressed C on restart to boot from the CDROM. It said Windows...

I put Ubuntu on a USB thumb drive and I'm running that without installing it. Currently testing the HD. How do I format the HD for Windows using Ubuntu? Is it possible to install windows from Ubuntu if I have the Windows 7 cd?

Thank you for the reply. I don't have any blank HDDs laying around unfortunately, only the ones in my desktop. Do I need to take the drive out of the laptop to connect it to my desktop? I'm not to clear on how to do that. Thank you!

My wifes laptop a Toshiba Satellite C55-a running Windows 8.1 decided it was going to cause me grief. Windows Update downloaded a bunch of updates and said it needed to restart to apply updates. That was fine, but when the updates were being applied it hit an error and then stated it was trying...