Formatted internel hd?

[chron12]

I Just installed ubuntu on my external hard drive. I had to format my
external to ext format. It worked fine and ubuntu installed fine. I restarted
and grub bootloader came up and I clicked windows vista launcher. The only
thing that came up was gateway recovery. What the hell happened? I never
touched my internel drive.

 

[LtKen]

Can your BIOS see the external hard drive? Grub probably doesnt know what's out there anymore. I've never seen anyone install an OS on an external hard drive....

 

[chron12]

Well it boots great off the drive! But where do I go to check it in my bios? I know how to get to bios bit where to check it?

 

[LtKen]

I couldnt tell you, it really depends on who makes your chipset.

Either way, how did you install Ubuntu? Did you let it manually chose partitions or what?

 

[chron12]

Well I had to choose to erase everything off my external drive and then installed to that.

 

[LtKen]

And the boot partition is on the external?

 

[chron12]

as in grub? Yes Without my external in in just says grub recovery

 

[LtKen]

Sounds about right. You cant put the /boot partition on the external and expect everything to be OK without the external plugged in....

 

[chron12]

Yea I figured that lol but even when I do have it plugged in the only option to boot with windows is gateway recovery.

 

[LtKen]

Again, probably because you borked the boot loader, and it doesnt know where anything is on your hard drive.

 

[chron12]

So if I find it in bios will it all be ok? Or have I ****ed up?

 

[LtKen]

I dont know how the Windows bootloader works. I would assume that since the partitions are still there, you can recovery, but I couldnt tell you how.

 

[chron12]

Alright maybe I could install a new bootloader somehow? I don't really know

 

[LtKen]

I'd start with Super Grub Disk, and see what you can do for yourself.

 

[chron12]

Thanks for your help. I'll give it a whirl