Thread: Asus G50VT Enhanced vs Compatible: GRUB

hi,

have asus g50vt laptop 2 hard drives. first of them contains windows vista 64, , second 1 used have ubuntu 9.04. used load grub , fine. well, not everything.

see, thing specific laptop linux doesn't default bios configuration , doesn't work unless set setting "advanced-> ide configurtion->sata operation mode [compatible]" (as opposed "advanced-> ide configurtion->sata operation mode [enhanced]", windows needs).

now, used make work switching between enhanced , compatible when wanted boot windows.

started experiencing hard drive problems. had re-install ubuntu couple of times. works little while, , after 4 or 5 boots checks disk because of errors, works. next time fails. , have run fsck manually , has fix many inodes , whatnots. fails.

hard drive failing. isn't point. think it's hard-drive problem, because @ boot, if set "enhanced", bios doesn't detect second hard drive (it used to). if set compatible , reboot, detect hard drive , grub loads fine.

of course, means can't vista, because if set enhanced, bios doesn't detect second hard drive, , grub says: error 21.

if set compatible, can't load vista (it doesn't work), can load ubuntu. ubuntu fail n-th time, i'm sure, in couple of boots.

now, know guys won't have answer this. i'm not expert, don't know answer. start? i'm not sure it's problem hard drive. because when re-install ubuntu, works fine first few boots. , since money kind of tight, i'd make sure before go buying new one. there can do? test or something?

or there way install grub livecd in way recognizes windows?

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xorlium

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