No boot and Fn+F3 doesnt work. HELP¡

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Hi.
I ve installed ubuntu on a partition and works correctly. But when I booted vista OS I saw tipical windows blue screen error after some seconds. Probably Ubunty moved a important file when resized the particions. Ok, I ve formatted vista partition (using ubuntu live cd) but when I try to install Vista the installer fails creating a partion. In fact the installer doesnt see any partition. Only the entire disk. And when I boot using fn+f3 (to recover vista) the screen keeps black and nothing happens after the question "all the data will be erased, bla, bla". I know the recovery partition is there because I can see it with Ubuntu live CD. Please, any idea? I am happy with ubuntu but I need vista or xp too.
Dani

If you don't mind having a Spanish Vista, I can dump the recovery partition for you and provide instructions on how to write it, so you will be able to recover Vista with Fn+F3.

Thanks¡¡¡, It would be nice.... I am lost...

How to dump and restore the Vista recovery partition:

http://pof.eslack.org/blog/2008/04/2...-on-htc-shift/

I will send you the 'shift-vista-recovery.bin' file once I finish dumping it.

ouch that sucks ... pof have you been able to dual boot and do you think that it's an isolate issue?

Originally Posted by koala996

ouch that sucks ... pof have you been able to dual boot and do you think that it's an isolate issue?

yes, he has overwritten the HPA because he did a wrong partitioning. I'm sending him mine so he can recover.

To avoid breaking things you have two choices when partitioning the Shift:

1) Understand how the HPA works in the Shift, so you just need to avoid overwriting the last 3GiB (3.2 GB) of your 40 GB HDD.

or

2) Make any changes to the partition table using a "dumb" system like Vista, which doesn't see the the HPA, so doesn't allow you to screw it.

And for really newbie people, the best is to use wubi-installer, which does not require you to modify the partitions on the shift, as it installs ubuntu as if it was a windows program.

Originally Posted by pof

yes, he has overwritten the HPA because he did a wrong partitioning. I'm sending him mine so he can recover.

To avoid breaking things you have two choices when partitioning the Shift:

1) Understand how the HPA works in the Shift, so you just need to avoid overwriting the last 3GiB (3.2 GB) of your 40 GB HDD.

or

2) Make any changes to the partition table using a "dumb" system like Vista, which doesn't see the the HPA, so doesn't allow you to screw it.

And for really newbie people, the best is to use wubi-installer, which does not require you to modify the partitions on the shift, as it installs ubuntu as if it was a windows program.

ok .. but there are many Linux that can be installed in the partition on Vista without needing to have 2 partitions... isn't it ? .. I don't know if Ubuntu is able to do it.. but I know that Mandrake/Mandriva could do it easily

Originally Posted by koala996

ok .. but there are many Linux that can be installed in the partition on Vista without needing to have 2 partitions... isn't it ? .. I don't know if Ubuntu is able to do it.. but I know that Mandrake/Mandriva could do it easily

yes, that's exactly what wubi-installer does.

Originally Posted by pof

yes, that's exactly what wubi-installer does.

ok .. I didn't know wubi.. I'm used having a partition for each os

Please get a shift-vista-recovery.bin
I format my drive an install Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and lost a HPA partition