[Nottingham] Dual boot failure

[Alistair Lane]

Thanks for the advice but  the Aspire One is a netbook with no CD/DVD drive so I'll have to try to make a bootable USB stick sometime.

Regards 
Alistair

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com>
To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:55
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Dual boot failure


On 07/09/13 19:54, Anil Kiral wrote: 
> One way to recover your photos would be to boot with a live cd/USB. > Ubuntu installation cd should work as it allows you to test the OS > before installing. Unless the file system is corrupted, you'll be able > to mount the Ubuntu partition with your photos on and copy the photos > to a USB, a cd, the windows partition, or whatever. 
 
There is a well documented method for repairing grub - I have used it successfully on a couple of occasions.  You boot from the live-CD and use the commandline to re-install grub on the partition on which it is presently installed.  If you can't find it online, I might have made notes somewhere, but it's easy to find on the Ubuntu forums. 
 
Regards,        Barry Drake 
 
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