Cell wrote:So then we need an expert on fixing the mbr so you can boot back into vista.Do I understand you correctly that you don't have a means to use a cd,or a dvd?
Also I by no means intend to say unetbootin isn't supposed to work only on a fat 16 formated stick....I never read the instructions on how to use the app.The above post is merely my experience with it.I see that your able to post replies on the forum.So are you able to use that pc to reformat the drive,and use unetbootin?<Obvious question I know,but we are trying to get you up and running as soon as possible.
In order first to last:
That was my original thinking - but that was before I started worrying about disc errors. But... I guess an MBR that's gone down for the dirt nap would qualify for the designation, so maybe that's still all that I need (for now - still want to both install UE2.3 to a chunk of the hard drive and make a 100% healthy live version for portability and to let others play without having to download or install first.
It has a dvd/cd burner - but I have reason not to trust it. I would only want to use it to burn the OS media as a last resort. likelihood of success pretty low. Higher if someone ELSE burned it and could verify same.
Well, if you run into someone who follow a given procedure and has nothing BUT trouble and once they changed the procedure they had none, and you were also having nothing but trouble and had ALSO followed the first procedure that they were trying... I don't remember reading to only use FAT-16 but you know, it's another variable in the equation for sure (whether it is relevant or not, IDK).
Yes, I can still at this point boot from the live USB stick. But twice now I have done so and it's hung upon my trying to use the Hardware Installation broadcom installer tool. Guessing that's telling me that there is a problem with the stick. IDK.
I cannot, however, get Vista to run.at this point, that little usb stick is my only means of using the computer).
I'm about to go back and follow the steps on the terminal grub info thing but I'll put the results in the next post so as to keep this one supershort.