dell 1545 no os boot, can someone help please?

[jeffro]

hi,
i have a dell inspiron 1545 win 7
i had no os boot problem,
ran check dsk
got os boot back.
ran windows up date ,
then no osboot all over again.
i tried unbutu
would not work,
error said monitor type unreconized
i ran a couple hirens programs, from usb stick
and i believed i corrupted the partitions
now i ran gparted and i get the following message
model ata toshiba mk2565gs
size 232 gb
path /dev/sda
partition table unreconized
heads 255
sectors/track 63
cylinders 30401
total sctors 488387168
sector size 512
i ran test disk quick test it found only dell utilities only
did not complete deeper scan.
i used wondershare live boot cd
fixed mbr, and boot sector
was unable to use any other tools on the cd
data recovery,etc did not work.
i am trying data recovery with gparted at the moment
and yes computer is so biffed up now,
i want to be able to get my files off harddrive if possible. dump on cds
i really suck at windows computers, i did enjoy the apple/texas instruments days
so i am asking for help.
thanks jeff

[DaveLembke]

i tried unbutu
would not work,
error said monitor type unreconized

Sometimes you need to try different distros to find one that matches to hardware.

I have a similar laptop with Core 2 Duo CPU that I had display driver issues with Mint 17.2 and Mint 17.2 is very much like Ubuntu ... I got mine working on Linux Mint 9 LTS . You might be able to get yours to boot off of Linux Mint 9 LTS bootable disk and then gain access to your hard drive to get your data if the hard drive is not ill. Although your data might be all gone now that you tampered with it from looks of it.

[Allan]

Just curious - why are you posting in haiku?

[DaveLembke]

was thinking maybe a mobile device with line character limit that carried over with lots of returns..