I was installing Ubuntu, and I think I've got myself a problem.

I have WINDOWS 7 installed on my computer. The partitions were setting up as follows:
100 MB for the boot sector
687 GB for drive C:
15 GB for Win7 drive image

This is what I did. I went to "Disk Management" and shrunk the volume for drive C to make a 100GB space for Ubuntu. I left the space "unallocated", rebooted the computer using the disc that I made with the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. I clicked the button to try out Ubuntu. When I got to the desktop, I clicked System > Administration > GParted.

I selected the "non-allocated" 100 GB AREA to have GParted to partition for Ubuntu.

Here is where my problem is... after partitioning the area. I go to System > Administration > Install Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS... I follow the prompts and when I get to the step to install to a partition...nothing shows up in the box for what partition I want to install to. So I shut the computer down, TAKE out the Ubuntu disc, and the computer freezes.

I put the disc back in to reboot to Ubuntu, run GParted and instead of seeing all the AVAILABLE partitions... I see 1...YES 1 partition that is 687 GB that is "unallocated".

I'm guessing that Win7 is completely off my computer. What the heck???

How can I get Win7 back??? My computer didn't come with a disc. I guess I'm screwed!!!

What should I do now???Can you boot into Windows 7 at all?No. After CMOS, I get a flashing cursor in the top left-hand corner.

Quote from: Cityscape on September 13, 2010, 10:25:00 AM

Can you boot into Windows 7 at all?