Running Windows and Trisquel mini
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I made a bootable UBS stick so I could try Trisquel without installing it on my laptop running Vista.... some how it installed it's self and made it's self the only OS that will boot. This very distressing as I have to have Vista to run my business.
I eventually want to migrate eveything over to Trisquel but for now how do I boot up Vista?
Thanx in advance,
Crunch
It's unlikely Trisquel installed itself as the default OS automatically. My hunch is the computer is installing the Trisquel live desktop at each boot from the USB. Have you tried booting without the USB?
I wish it was that easy.... I haven't had the stick in the USB for days :-)
Also it can't be the full installation as it won't save anything..... shrug
Try booting using the Windows install CD/DVD, or recovery partition, and fixing the problem using that. There should be instructions in your owners manual.
Alternatively, you could download and burn a rescue boot disk, such as gParted Live CD/USB, and boot using that. Then delete the MBR (Master Boot Record) Trisquel has written to your hard disk. This should leave the old Windows MBR intact, so when you reboot it'll be into Windows.
GParted Live CD
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Thanx Dan..... I'll give the gParted live a shot as my laptop didn't come with any discs at all.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks.
To delete the MBR, using the gParted disk. you use the F-Disk program. F-Disk should be on the gParted CD. When in F-Disk at the prompt type the following and press enter:
fdisk /mbr
Notice the space after the word fdisk.
Exit F-Disk, quit the gParted application, restart and remove the gParted CD/USB. The computer should now boot into your previous operating system.
** Warning: do this at your own risk, it's not guaranteed to work. Also deleting, altering or moving disk partitions, tables and records is risky. The worse outcome would be an unbootable computer. In this case, you would need to go to a computer professional or computer savvy friend to recover your data and fix the problem. **
You need to fix your MBR, boot from your Windows recovery CD and use fixboot and fixmbr to restore your master boot record. Please look to an official Microsoft support site for direction on how to do this properly!
Please note these direction assume that windows is properly installed on the first partition on your HDD.
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