Hi all,
I dont know where else to go, and so I am asking for help here. I have mint 14 and fedora on dual boot in my laptop. The laptop is a dell XPS15, and has i7, 6GB ram, and 750GB HDD.
But now, due to academic requirements, I had to install win7 on my laptop.
when the win7 installer loaded, I selected an empty 50gb partition for it to set up but as soon as I chose install, the setup froze there, and upon restart, the laptop's existing OSes (mint, fedora) are now giving kernel panics at boot.
Here is a pic of the Mint Hang:
http://picpaste.com/IMG_20130807_195143-m3cJ83E1.jpg
Here is a pic of the Fedora Hang:
http://picpaste.com/IMG_20130807_194932-ciojDpJt.jpg
My top priority is the data that exists in 2 NTFS partitions(300GB each) which I need to recover.
Even booting from a USB Key (Mint) does not work. I am guessing that the HDD may be causing the problem.
What do I do? Please help!!