Ubuntu :: Couldn't Boot In To Anything If The USB Wasn’t Plugged In Because Of GRUB

Jan 7, 2010

i got a external hard drive for christmas and i installed ubuntu on it. then i couldent boot in to anything if the USB wasent pluged in because of GRUB so i removed GRUB and now i cant see my external USB drive in windows to formate it

Computer:
Toshiba
Windows Vista
External Hard Drive: HP Simple Save

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I'm running FC 12, on a Pentium III PC. This has a 440BX motherboard with an AWE64 Gold ISA card. It wasn't recognised at boot up, I've installed the GUI ALSA mixer, inisitally it shows no sound device.Searching around the forums stumbled across the command:modprobe snd-sbaweThis one line command worked fine (no errors), enabled the volume control, and ALSA mixer GUI gave loads of nice sliders. Pushing these up I found that basic sound was working fine (eg playing Flash video within Firefox). I don't need any other features of the AWE64 right now (might like MIDI port one day).

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#!/bin/bash
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...
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[2.201029] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Ext Hard Disk PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[2.201450] usb-storage: device scan complete
[2.206637] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk......
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[6.225262] .
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The LaCie entry at the bottom there is my pendrive.

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hypervisor qemu
XML:

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