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Just to wrap up the thread on a positive note, the issue is solved. The steps that wound up working for me (after my silly mistakes described above) were:

1) Set optical drive as first boot...

Ok, somebody shoot me or slap me or something. :roll:

yeah, it was a BIOS issue. I've only got one optical drive, and for some reason 2 different ones are listed in BIOS. Turns out I had the...

I was thinking the same thing. Can I just point GRUB at the second partition?

From another thread I'm reading:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1359802&highlight=grub+error+boot+cd

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Thanks for the quick reply. I agree, I've gotta get this thing to boot off a CD, but I've never had a machine that wouldn't boot off a CD after making the appropriate BIOS adjustments, so I'm a...

Hey all, I got to reconfiguring my hard disks in my main tower, and I've messed up GRUB in the process.

I originally had Win 7 and Ubuntu Studio installed on a disk split into 3 partitions (Win 7...

Got it!!! Woot!

Turns out I still had a boot.ini file hidden on my C:\ Drive, and that's what was giving the option to boot to Recovery Console.

Since I am no longer using Win XP, I just...

@DRS: I checked out that link and looked at #4, and I don't know if we're talking about the same thing... I'm not trying to hide the partition from the boot menu - just the option of booting to...

Sweet... the response times on this forum are nearly overwhelming, but that's a good thing. Thanks!

@Jetso - Thank you - that did the trick! The CLI in Linux is great when people tell me what...

Ty for quick response, Mike! You may well be onto something with my windows bootloader. I'll look into that more now. (See how us Windows users are? Immediately blaming Ubuntu, lol..)

In the...

Hey all, great forum here... been lurking and learning a lot of stuff on here - much obliged!

Anyhow, I'm a n00b to the Linux world, so I installed it on my Windows 7 desktop to dual boot. ...