1 Topic by kayte

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Topic: Unable to find medium Containing live file sytem

I recently had my computer upgraded which was all hardware except for the HDD. I asked the computer shop to format my HD but because I had a duel boot system with WinXP and Linux Mint, the guy in the shop only formatted the windows partition. I wanted to repair or format the partition with mint but when I try to use the Mint live CD or GParted CD I just end up with Ubuntu BusyBox and a whole lot of text and a message saying "unable to find a medium containing a live file system". Obviously when windows was reinstalled it wrecked the Mint boot loader whatever.  but I thought GParted would be able to get in and let me format and repartition.  I've googled and searched forums and I'm not sure if it's something to do with my MB having EFI Bios or my SATA HD being set to IDE. If I change the Bios to ACHI my system will see the Mint CD but if I then boot into Windows I get instant blue screen and crash. My new system is Asus P8H61-M LE, i5 2500k 3.30ghz, Radeon HD 6870, 4g RAM Win XP SP3. I would really appreciate some help, I'm way over my head and the shop doesn't want to know about it.

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Re: Unable to find medium Containing live file sytem

I found there was a new version of GParted so I downloaded that and burnt it to disk. I was pretty excited when it booted up and let me go through the process of deleting the old partitions. I rebooted my machine and changed to ACHI in the Bios and the computer read the Mint disk and installed it.  Unfortunately after installing Mint, in either IDE or ACHI mode I still get the BusyBox and  intramfs whatever it is and it can't find the OS. At least GParted works smile

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Re: Unable to find medium Containing live file sytem

Thank you for reporting back that the latest GParted Live worked on your system.  I have used GParted Live on an ASUS P8H61-M i5-2500k motherboard with no problems.