Help! Stuck in Linux World!

What are the errors it gives? When you formated it with gparted what filesystem did it use? You might try using dban to nuke partition data on the disk and seeing if it works starting from scratch.
 
SpicyDuck said:
Ok, so I installed Linux Mint to a USB Drive yesterday (first time I've ever used Linux) and booted up. Nice gimmick and everything, but then I wanted to clean my main HDD in this laptop and install Vista on that.

So I used "GParted" to format the drive... then, I don't know what has happened. Obviously my windows install has gone, but I can't mount my external HDD (which has my Vista installation files on it). I can't even properly format the main HDD cause it just runs into errors no matter what I do. Errors I don't understand, I should add.

So... now I'm in Linux Mint, running from USB... can't do anything to the internal drive in the laptop, and can't mount the external HDD.

Any ideas? I just need to be able to format the main internal HDD. That's all. GParted says it can, but it lies. :o

Edit: It also messes with the way devices are detected at boot-up which is extremely frustrating. Mostly due to the fact that it fails to detect itself unless I reboot a thousand times. This Linux stuff is really just, terrible.
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it sounds likie user error tbh. How can anyone stuff up mint??? lol :)
 
When you refer to 'USB' to you mean a flash key or a hd?

It sounds like you were running Mint from an external drive but grub was on the internal. Hence blitzing the internal means you can't boot.
 
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