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Installing Ubuntu Linux On Laptop Partition Hard Made My Hard Drive Disappear?

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i ahve an ASUS laptop ( originally with 64-bit win 7 home, now 64-bit win7 pro )
had a recovery partition and main partition ( with boom, system files, etc.. )
dynamic disc ( in case that matters )
after testing ubuntu from my flash drive i decided to shrink my dynamic disc volume by 200gb and put ubuntu on that
i used the ubuntu on my flash drive to section off 195gb for linux and 5gb for swap files and did the installation
i restarted my comptuer and **** hit the fan
i can no longer boot windows ( it begins to boot but them flashes for maybe a quarter a second what appears to be a memory error, all i can make out is white text on a blue background, and shuts off )
i can no longer boot to my ubuntu flash drive ( in case the installation messed it up i’m currently redownloading ubuntu and i’m gonna redo the flash drive and try again )
the win 7 pro install cd i have boots from the cd drive just fine, excpect when i attempt to recover, memory test, restore, or anything else it acts as if the harddrive dosen’t exist
all attempts at using the recovery tool when i choose not to start windows normally
and the recovery tool on the cd have the same result, it is as if the harddrive isn’t there
it asks me for a driver for my harddrive, which i don’t have, nor does the ASUS website provide ( it’s laptop harddrive, i mean, c’mon )
my BIOS allthroughout this recognizes my harddrive just A-O.K.
left with no options and a vaugly similar story i found trying to search my problem ( ultimately to no avail as alas here i am ) led me to phyisically removing and reinserting my battery and harddrive from my laptop, in hopes my computer will miracuously recognize it
it didnt -.-
so here i am, without windows, without linux, in the middle of using a 500kb/s connection to downlown linux ( gonna take hours )
so that HOPEFULLY i MIGHT be able to at least have a working laptop, irregaurdless of salvaging my old data ( which would be nice, but not absolutely neccessary )
if anyone, has any information that can help me, please do share, because i am SOL as of this point
nothing i know about the workings of computers has helped me in what the problem is
p.s. i did not change the windows 7 boot records prior to the attempt at the ubuntu installation, from what i know i thought this would make windows boot normally, acting as if linux haden’t been installed, untill i specified otherwise
please consider all possibilities for linux installation errors on my part ( i feel like my specifying where and how to install ubuntu is what got me into this mess )
thank you

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