Hi,
I had a dual boot system of windows 7 and windows 8(win 8 was installed after 7). I wanted to install Mint and remove windows 7. However, looking through forums, I came to know that I'd need to move the boot loader from windows 7 to 8. I tried to do that using EasyBcd but had no success. So I just installed Mint using a live usb. I installed it on the windows 7 partition by simply deleting the partition during the Mint installation. When i deleted the partition and further tried to install, it would give me a message that "dev/sda2 won't be accessible if mounted,until the pc is restarted". I pressed next, but the installer froze, although rest of the live Linux Mint was working perfectly. After trying for two or three times, i finally installed it. And now on restarting the system, I had to accept the fact that I had done it all wrong coz my windows 8 won't boot, MInt booted automatically. Grub loader did not appear, too. now i tried to use gparted in the mint os. I have not tried using gparted on live media. When i used gparted, it shows just one partition that has no name and is unallocated. This unallocated space was the space - "HDD space - minus - mint partition space". It was not showing other partition including the windows 8 partition. However, when I opened file manager, windows 8 partition as well as other partition did show up and I was able to mount them and use any file. All the important files, I already uploaded them to skydrive. I tried to install windows 8 again using a bootable usb, but it said that hard drive was locked. I don't need any of the files present on my HDD. Just help me install windows 8 back agin. Help me get out of this problem. Thanks a lot in advance coz I know u guys will help me. :)
I had a dual boot system of windows 7 and windows 8(win 8 was installed after 7). I wanted to install Mint and remove windows 7. However, looking through forums, I came to know that I'd need to move the boot loader from windows 7 to 8. I tried to do that using EasyBcd but had no success. So I just installed Mint using a live usb. I installed it on the windows 7 partition by simply deleting the partition during the Mint installation. When i deleted the partition and further tried to install, it would give me a message that "dev/sda2 won't be accessible if mounted,until the pc is restarted". I pressed next, but the installer froze, although rest of the live Linux Mint was working perfectly. After trying for two or three times, i finally installed it. And now on restarting the system, I had to accept the fact that I had done it all wrong coz my windows 8 won't boot, MInt booted automatically. Grub loader did not appear, too. now i tried to use gparted in the mint os. I have not tried using gparted on live media. When i used gparted, it shows just one partition that has no name and is unallocated. This unallocated space was the space - "HDD space - minus - mint partition space". It was not showing other partition including the windows 8 partition. However, when I opened file manager, windows 8 partition as well as other partition did show up and I was able to mount them and use any file. All the important files, I already uploaded them to skydrive. I tried to install windows 8 again using a bootable usb, but it said that hard drive was locked. I don't need any of the files present on my HDD. Just help me install windows 8 back agin. Help me get out of this problem. Thanks a lot in advance coz I know u guys will help me. :)