Grub - Desperate for help

[Guest]

My son G V Srinivasan (gvsrinivasan) was using a Dell laptop where he had installed Kubuntu (version 9.10 - I am not sure about it).

After desperately fighting cancer in the bone, he passed away last week and I wanted to donate the laptop to the school where he studied.

Unfortunately when I switched on the laptop, I found "Grub loading - error: file not found... grub recovery>

I have no idea about the Kubuntu OS because I am more familiar with Windows.

I wanted to restore the laptop to a working condition at the earliest before I donate it to the school.

I need help from you. Please be patient and explain the trouble shooting methods in plain language.

With best regards.

Veda

PS: I have used a live cd to boot from cd rom drive but without any luck

[arochester]

Re: Grub - Desperate for help

I have used a live cd to boot from cd rom drive but without any luck

You need to access the BIOS and make sure that the computer will boot from CD-Rom first - before the Hard Drive.

If this works the LiveCD should have an option to install. Try that and tell it to use the whole disk. It will write over everything on the disk.

[vinnywright]

Re: Grub - Desperate for help

My son G V Srinivasan (gvsrinivasan) was using a Dell laptop where he had installed Kubuntu (version 9.10 - I am not sure about it).

After desperately fighting cancer in the bone, he passed away last week and I wanted to donate the laptop to the school where he studied.

I am so sorey to hear that.
I lost a son on june 15 2007 ..................... my hart is with you.

PS: I have used a live cd to boot from cd rom drive but without any luck

when you say that ...(luck) ... do you mean you couldent boot the cd ...or... couldent fix the grub problem.

if your like me then then you may want to look around in the laptop at you sons things and or copey some of it off before you donate it to the school ........................my son had poims and wallpapers he had made and riten .

but first thing's first ...... and thats geting it to boot a cd..........so get back and let us know if you can and if the cd made it to a live OS

VINNY

[aiiee]

Re: Grub - Desperate for help

So sorry for your loss.

Would you not want to remove all personal files before donating it?

If it were me, I would use a disk wiper like DBAN first, then reinstall Kubuntu 9.10.

You can find DBAN thru Google