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Laptop crashes after BIOS

EvilYoda

EvilYoda

Lifer
Hi all, I hope someone can help me since I'm in NYC right now and I really can't be w/o my laptop! Yesterday night it was working fine and just now I turn it on, it shows the Dell X1 boot screen and then immediately there's a screen with "L 99 99 99 99" with the "99 " repeating to about 3/4ths of the way down. I imagine it's a probem relating to the boot sector, so it might be related to this:

up to a month ago, I was dual booting XP and Ubuntu. I then used Partition Magic to resize the linux partition since I didn't use it. I still had the Ubuntu boot screen though...which is where the new error screen comes up. Hopefully it's not a virus or something as I've had to use this fvcking hotel's free lobby wifi.

Is there any way I can boot off of a USB drive I have with me (this is a friend's computer) and then rewrite the boot sector to a normal boot scheme?

THANKS.
 
Yep, sounds like a damaged MBR/boot sector ? do you have a windows setup disk with you to fix it via fixmbr command/or just reinstall your boot loader with any other utility? If not try entering the bios and exiting ? it may catch it then and allow you to load your os.
 
Well I've found a lot of pages on this subject and I'm in a pinch since I'm working on a Dell X1 which doesn't have an optical drive (the one time that it actually sucks), so I'm borrowing someone's laptop, download the livecd image of ubuntu, installing to my USB flash drive, then bootin off of that in order to fix the error.

let's hope it works.
 
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