Hello Everybody,
I installed kubuntu 8.10 from live cd in my new IBM lenovo R61 laptop. I had a Windows XP SP3 pre installed as a single complete partition. I defragmented and compacted the drive using ultradefrag and started kubuntu install. In ultradefrag, I could see that all the data was in the first 30% of the drive, the remaining was free space. In Kubuntu install, I did a resize to 50 % and installed kubuntu in the freespace. The resize went without any problems, installation went good, I could boot into kubuntu after the install. But, the problem is, XP displays a BSOD with 0x0000007B error. After i select windows from GRUB, I get the option from windows whether to start normally or go to safe mode or ..... But whatever option i choose, I get this blue screen.
I went to recovery console, did a chkdsk /R, fixboot, fixmbr, also bootcfg /rebuild. Now my GRUB is replaced by plain windows bootloader and I still get the same BSOD with 0x0000007B message.
Unfortunately, I am not getting a repair install option in my borrowed windows xp installation cd and the cd from ibm is a recovery one, which kinda replaces everything.
I did not know where to start asking for help, so I am beginning here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
I installed kubuntu 8.10 from live cd in my new IBM lenovo R61 laptop. I had a Windows XP SP3 pre installed as a single complete partition. I defragmented and compacted the drive using ultradefrag and started kubuntu install. In ultradefrag, I could see that all the data was in the first 30% of the drive, the remaining was free space. In Kubuntu install, I did a resize to 50 % and installed kubuntu in the freespace. The resize went without any problems, installation went good, I could boot into kubuntu after the install. But, the problem is, XP displays a BSOD with 0x0000007B error. After i select windows from GRUB, I get the option from windows whether to start normally or go to safe mode or ..... But whatever option i choose, I get this blue screen.
I went to recovery console, did a chkdsk /R, fixboot, fixmbr, also bootcfg /rebuild. Now my GRUB is replaced by plain windows bootloader and I still get the same BSOD with 0x0000007B message.
Unfortunately, I am not getting a repair install option in my borrowed windows xp installation cd and the cd from ibm is a recovery one, which kinda replaces everything.
I did not know where to start asking for help, so I am beginning here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.