Ubuntu

Hello dear readers!

I have been, other than really busy, trying to get my laptop back up and running properly. For the past 2 LONG weeks, I have been running off of recovery modes from 2 different versions of the Ubuntu Linux Kernels.

Reason being, the partition on my laptop that holds the Ubuntu 10.10 Notebook Version will not initialize on bootup. For whatever reason, it gives me the following error message on bootup when the bootloader program GRUB initializes:

Out of Disk

I have been looking online at some linux/Ubuntu forums to try to fix this, but the main solutions involve what's called 'mounting' the partition to the recovery disk (a.k.a. Live CD/USB). For you linux noobs, consider this, in Windows, when you insert a USB device into your computer, the OS (Operating System) creates a link (or mount point) in "My Computer" for you to open the folders in the USB drive and view what's inside; thus the USB Drive is 'mounted' in "My Computer".

What I need to try to do is to mount the linux partition of my hard drive to my Live CD/USB to fix it. Problem being: the partition seems to be busy and will not mount, like having a flash drive busy with something and constantly telling the computer "I'll get back to you in a bit".

Now, if the data on the partition weren't important, I'd just re-format that partition and start over. Problem #2 being: All my current school-related files are on that partition, and I can't access them. So I'm stuck, because my laptop will not load the Windows OS or the linux kernel, so the only way I can use this machine right now is by booting off of recovery versions of Ubuntu where I can't even save any data.

I'll hopefully be able to get my system back up and running by the end of the semester. I just haven't made the decent chance to really sit down and break my back trying to get this thing working properly again.

Here's hoping.

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~DanceLink