Installing Ubuntu in an external HD

[José Manuel Martínez Martínez]

Hi Thomas,
It is quite strange 'cos  I also  found directions like yours in another forum and people say it
works. Anyway, I've managed to rescue all my windows files (that's a very important step) and I
will search in the link you recommend.
Happily, I friend of my brother is a computer science student and an intensive linux user, he is
helping me a bit so I hope to finish soon with this nightmare.
I'll tell you about it.
And thank you very much for your kind help!
Best regards,

Jose

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Thomas wrote:

Hello Jose

I don't know what happened to your MBR :-(
"fixmbr" should fix this, at least the boot code. But there are some 
information about the partition table in the MBR. So, it looks like this 
is broken for some strange reason.

"fixmbr" should fix the MBR and "fixboot" should fix the partition boot 
sector.

"fixmbr" and "fixboot" worked always for me in the past.

Check http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ntboot/ on how to build a boot floppy. 
Maybe this helps.

If you know the partition layout you have, you could re-partition the 
disk with exactly the same partition layout you had. This can be done 
with "fdisk". "fdisk" will only touch the partition table, so it should 
be save to not destroy your data. But I think it is a high risk to do 
this. On the other hand, if you write the same partition table like you 
had before, every thing should be ok again (in theory).

Sorry, it is hard for me to figure out the right strategy for your 
problem, right now :-(

You could browse the nu2.nu site, here are a lot of information about 
booting and helpful tools.

I hope you get this issue fixed.

Regards, Thomas


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