The easy option would be to bring the laptop along to Dover on the 29th:<div><a href="http://kentlug.org/content/technical-meeting-saturday-29th-january">http://kentlug.org/content/technical-meeting-saturday-29th-january</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://kentlug.org/content/technical-meeting-saturday-29th-january"></a>There will be many people there who can help.</div><div><br></div><div>Both windows and Linux (Ubuntu) on instalation also install and configure a boot loader: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting</a></div>
<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting"></a>It looks like the Linux one didn't update the menu for the boot loader properly, the windows boot loader when you restored it doesn't detect linux.</div><div>
<br></div><div>You can add Linux to the windows boot loader: <a href="http://bkpavan.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/how-to-boot-linux-using-windows-bootloader-xp/">http://bkpavan.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/how-to-boot-linux-using-windows-bootloader-xp/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://bkpavan.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/how-to-boot-linux-using-windows-bootloader-xp/"></a>Some (very full) instructions on reinstalling grub2 are here:</div><div><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581099">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581099</a></div>
<div><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581099"></a>You will learn more about the boot process than you ever thought you needed to know.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are happy to blow away the Ubuntu partitions you can always reinstall Ubuntu and wipe out the existing partitions/installations and reinstall. As long as it doesn't have any work you want to keep (You can always backup using a live CD).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Before making any further changes do make sure (If you haven't already) you make a backup of anything you want to keep. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 January 2011 09:28, Paul Lawrence <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com">paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><p class="MsoNormal">
I have a Dell D400
laptop with Win XP that I use for demonstrations and I used the Ubuntu 10.10 live
CD to create a dual boot. All was fine. As far as I can tell, after a Ubuntu update,
I lost the XP option on startup. Couldn’t see anything on Ubuntu forums to help
so I used the live CD to try and repair and ended up creating another Ubuntu partition!
A bit fed up with the whole thing I used the Win XP CD to repair Windows but
now I can only see the Windows partition. On a 60G drive, I can see 30G. I
really don’t want to spend a whole day from scratch reloading XP, patches and SPs
if I don’t have to. Aim is to get back to a stable dual boot machine. Back to
basics I am sure but would anyone be kind enough to point me on the right track
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