Solved W7/Linux Mint dual boot upgade

[johnwillyums]

Shall I try and boot from it. As I say, the only place it could be is on the 81GB partition marked as Free Space.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Delete that other 'new' partition first.

 

[johnwillyums]

Ok. How do I make it not active? It's the only partition showing as active on that disk.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Just delete it in disk management.

 

[johnwillyums]

New Volume. The one after the Free Space partition?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

This one.

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[johnwillyums]

Ok. This is what I got now. There is still the 17GB one at the end.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Now try the one-time boot menu to see if the Linux HDD will boot on it's own.

 

[johnwillyums]

Ok. I'll be back in a minute

 

[johnwillyums]

Hmmn. same as last night. The F12 one time boot menu comes up but I cannot move the selection with my arrows keys. It shows Floppy at the top highlighted then Hard Drive then LST120 then Hard Drive and several other option but I cannot make a selection. This is very worrying.

 

[johnwillyums]

I'm using a different USB keyboard but it's going into the pc on the same USB port. Is it worth trying it in another port?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

As was suggested earlier, I bet it's the USB K/B issue, are you able to use any other keys, other than the arrow keys to select different HDDs?

 

[johnwillyums]

Not that I know of. I'll try it in another USB port.

 

[johnwillyums]

I've put it into a port at the back of the monitor. I'll try the F12 options again BRB

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Here's the next step, the 500GB partition/HDD needs marked Inactive, open an elevated command window and use this outline to mark that HDD/partition as inactive; if you have any questions about this feel free to ask.

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[johnwillyums]

Well, some success Putting the keyboard through a different USB port has restored keyboard functionality. I chose drive 1 but it wouldn't boot. I got a message saying cannot boot need system disk.
As I say, maybe Linux got wiped last night. However I'm relieved that I can now do a boot from disk. Maybe I should start over and install Ubuntu on that drive.
What do you reckon?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Well done, Martin suggested it may be the K/B, well done Martin.


Did you see my post above?

 

[johnwillyums]

Not sure how to go about that Ted. I know how to do an elevated command prompt. Do you mean copy what you have put in except applied to my 500GB drive?

 

[johnwillyums]

Something else weird. I just opened Disk Management again and the numbers have changed. Disk 1 is now the 500gb disk. what's going on?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Are you sure you used the one-time menu and not the BIOS to change the boot order?