Windows 7 - problem with booting, repairing and reinstalling

[b***@gmail.com]

I bought a notebook one year ago, with Win7, and I installed Ubuntu in dual boot. It worked for a while, but in some days some problems began to occur.
Windows was not starting anymore (neither in security mode, etc), and I had to run repair every time, for it to start.
In some days, repairing stop working, and I could not run Windows anymore. Now, I'm trying to reinstall, formatting Windows partition if necessary, but nothing from the recovery CD works (repairing, reinstalling, repairing from comand line). I tryed to install (or at least format) from Windows XP media, and the problem was the same.
I tryed to format Windos partition from Linux, and I had no succes, because it is kind of protected.

How can I reinstall Windows? Do you have any idea?

[Les Cargill]

Post by b***@gmail.com
I bought a notebook one year ago, with Win7, and I installed Ubuntu
in dual boot. It worked for a while, but in some days some problems
began to occur. Windows was not starting anymore (neither in security
mode, etc), and I had to run repair every time, for it to start. In
some days, repairing stop working, and I could not run Windows
anymore. Now, I'm trying to reinstall, formatting Windows partition
if necessary, but nothing from the recovery CD works (repairing,
reinstalling, repairing from comand line). I tryed to install (or at
least format) from Windows XP media, and the problem was the same. I
tryed to format Windos partition from Linux, and I had no succes,
because it is kind of protected.
How can I reinstall Windows? Do you have any idea?

Sounds like it's time for a new hard drive.

I have yet to rebuild under Win7, but
it should wipe the MBR of the drive if it's anything like XP.

If you've run afoul of LILO/GRUB,
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,894334,00.asp

If you want to play with Ubuntu, there's a VM of 10.10 on
the VmLite website with all the appliances. You can use Win7
as the host and run a Ubuntu VM.

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Les Cargill