James - you are right, I can do this myself. The restore is working (no files lost, made sure before trying!) and so now I can safely try again, breaking windows as often as I need to until I get Linux installed. I was just scared of losing papers and books due to my publisher, so thought i should seek help- but the backup works. Thanks for replying, anyway.
On Thursday, January 9, 2014, Guinevere Nell wrote: > Thanks James! You deserve a pint! > > I do not have a cd drive. I installed from a USB, it allowed me to > partition and then gave me the error during install. Then, after I tried > again using net install, and got same error, it suddenly would not let me > boot into windows or Linux, it just goes to the bios boot screen. Using > a bootable windows 8 I can get to troubleshooting options, but I am very > nervous about losing critical files, so I have not tried to reinstall > windows - my backed up data is giving me permissions errors when I try to > access from another computer... I took the backup using Macrium software. > > There are now a few partitions - windows plus 3 Linux partitions I > created. I believe the backup has all the files tho I have not been able to > confirm, given the permissions errors. Hopefully I have answered all your > questions - thanks so much!! > > On Thursday, January 9, 2014, James Laver wrote: > >> On 9 Jan 2014, at 19:34, Guinevere Nell <guinevere.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> >> Hi, >> >> I’m having a little bit of difficulty following here. >> >> > I am a latent perl programmer (was NY.pm in the day, YAPC 19100, etc) - >> > it's been a few, um 5 or 6, years since i have coded regularly - and >> I've >> > just tried installing Ubuntu on my windows 8 machine with no success - >> had >> > no cd drive and it complained and then won't let me boot in - >> >> Are you saying that you do not have a CD drive? How did you try and >> install umbongo without one - usb key? Or are you instead saying that you >> booted into umbongo, it told you you didn’t have a CD drive then kicked you >> out and now you can’t get back in to either OS? >> >> If you’ve got a backup, how did you take it? Assuming everything you >> require is in that backup, I think you should be able to sort this out >> yourself without too much hassle. So the questions: >> - How many partitions are currently on that disk? >> - Are any of them bootable at all? >> - How did you attempt the installation? USB key? >> - Which image did you download and how did you write that to whatever >> installation medium? >> - Do you have a CD drive? >> - Does the backup have all of the files you need? >> >> James >> > > > -- > http://economicliberty.net/ > > > > -- http://economicliberty.net/