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Title: Partition Recovery?
Post by: Dullstar on June 12, 2009, 06:53:46 AM
No!!!  When Mr. K reinstalled the OS for me, we lost the Ubuntu partition!

How can I get it to work again (after all, it is backed up)?

This is important with the Programming Language thing, as I will need to test it in Linux to make sure it works under Linux, or at least under WINE.
Title: Re: Partition Recovery?
Post by: The Doctor on June 12, 2009, 11:30:50 AM
Is the partition actually gone, or is GRUB just missing?

To check,...


If so, then GRUB was simply overwritten. There are guides all over the web on how to restore GRUB after a Windows XP installation.[/list]
Title: Re: Partition Recovery?
Post by: Mr. K on June 12, 2009, 01:02:59 PM
He used Wubi.  There is no partition.

We do have the disk image backed up, but I can't seem to make XP's bootloader load it again.  I modified boot.ini back to how it used to be, and copied back wubildr.mbr, but no dice.  I figure I just need to re-install Wubi and then copy the old disk image over.
Title: Re: Partition Recovery?
Post by: Dullstar on June 12, 2009, 10:12:17 PM
Yeah, just told me that it wasn't a real partition.  Did not know that before.
Title: Re: Partition Recovery?
Post by: The Doctor on June 12, 2009, 11:19:59 PM
Ah yeah, Wubi. You will need to reinstall and copy the image. Easy as pie.