Phædrus2401

I don't even know how to classify this, there's so much screwed up, but since it involves GPartedLive and probably GRUB I'm putting it in the Linux section.

I'm just going to give a step-by-step description of what's happened.

I had a computer with Windows 7 RC on it. I'd used Ubuntu 8.10 before and heard good things about Fedora 11, so I decided to check it out.

I used GPartedLive to halve the size of my NTFS partition, then installed Fedora 11 in the unallocated space. I tried to get it set up, but it turns out Dynex doesn't make Linux drivers for my wireless network card, so I couldn't get online to get advice and drivers for some of my other hardware.

Just to see what the interface was like I installed the KDE version of F11 over the GNOME version. I didn't like it and it had the same problem with the wireless drivers.

I decided to run Ubuntu off the LiveCD to see if maybe, just possibly, it had a fix. Turns out it didn't, and also my DVD drive decided to screw itself and refuse to open no matter what, leaving me with an Ubuntu CD stuck in my computer booting whenever I turn it on.

Got a new DVD drive today and decided to wipe Linux off since it's near worthless to me without internet, and so booted up GPartedLive and set it to delete the Linux partitions and expand the NTFS partition. Well, it crapped itself and gave me an error while trying to expand the NTFS partition that it could not find sda1... And the partition editor showed the hard drive as being one completely full NTFS partition of half the size of my hard drive!?

Rebooted without the CD and tried to see if I could get into Windows... Some stunted version of BASH comes up, and me being the phillistine that I am the only command I could figure out was "reboot".

I put in GPartedLive again, and this time it showed a healthy 300GiB NTFS partition with about 110GiB full, which is what it should have shown the last time.

But I cannot get into Windows, perhaps because some stunted remnant of GRUB or Linux is starting first. As far as I can tell it isn't even booting anything.

I tried putting in a Windows 7 disk to see if it would allow me to repair whatever went wrong, but all it does is say "Windows is loading files", shows a loading bar, then does the stupid swirly Windows 7 loading thing, then shows the default desktop background image, and nothing else.

Basically, I just want to get past whatever is stopping Windows from booting so I can run chkdsk and see what damage has been done. I have no idea how. This is a double A+ emergency.

One thing that *would* be a saving grace is that I have ASUS ExpressGate (SplashTop) on my mobo, which would allow me to have access to a web browser, be able to quickly boot and try things out, then get back to a browser as soon as I reboot... except that ExpressGate won't work with a wireless network card and I don't have a 75 foot ethernet cable on hand.

I am in dire need of help.

Phædrus2401

Hate to bump, but I *really* need help on fixing this. My computer is a thousand dollar pile of worthless junk until I get this fixed.