First post is going to be actually a strong one..
But it is fully justified, since I’ve just recovered my precious Gentoo installation after the mess Windows made to my disk..
Here comes the story: I need to scan a whole book (for translating purposes) so I borrowed a Plustek scanner from my dad. As we all know, Plusteks are dreadful when it comes to Linux support. But not having any other option, what could I do? I had to install *indows on my HDD to get it working.
After I finally got my *indows CD to boot (after changing few parameters in BIOS), I had to face the pure idiotism of *indows not recognizing any partitions other that NTFS/FAT. Thanks God I use LVM so I’m quite flexible and I found enough place for *indows installation. So i hit (from the *indows installer) “Delete partition”, than “Create partition” and got the weird error which can be compressed into “I’m stupid, I can’t create a new partition, although I’ve just successfully removed one.” So I hit whatever it took to exit and decided to give up and return to Gentoo to write a post on WordPress about my new neuron model. This is when I got that beautiful message
“Error loading operating system…”
This sucker altered my partition table in some wicked way so that I had to search for some old Gentoo LiveCD, boot it and chroot to my old environment and setup GRUB once more.
*indows… Why is it so destructive?!
(Thank God Linux is simple and I solved my problem in a less than two minutes…)
