Also I'm not sure that disk 0 has a bootable OS on it anymore. All the partitions are NTFS now except that 81GB of free space. Maybe Linux Mint was on the 40+ that I formatted as NTFS last night.
Unless it is in the free space. Is that likely?
Ok. I think that worked. I took out both 1TB Ssatas and put the Windows disk in port 0 and tried to boot. I entered the BIOS and port 0 was already showing as top of the list. I then shut down again and inserted the other sata-the 1TB with all the partitions on it.
This is what I now have in Disk Management:
If you have the time I'm up for it but as I say I'm wondering whether my Linux Mint install still exists. :)
I have a Ubuntu 11.04 ISO disk. The Liux Mint 11 is only a release candidate. Mind you, whatever I do I need to find a way to make the machine boot from disk.
That 'new' partition at the front of Disk 1, did you put anything there as it was unallocated space yesterday, if not delete it as it was using disk management before you try the Linux boot.
OK, using the F12 hot-key at PC startup (the one-time boot menu) see if the Linux HDD will boot, unfortunately I'm not much help with Linux OS / Grub and that stuff.
Well I never put anything on it but I just checked and it's showing as active, primary. It shows an NST folder (8KB) and one marked ANG0 in white which is 231 KB when I open it
It needs to not be Active, that's why I said if you put nothing there to delete it, I don't know but it may be interfering with Linux booting.
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are you up for other things now or later?