I'm kinda new here too, but if you installed GRUB2 on the 80gb disk and you are booting from the disk you originally had ubuntu & windows 7 on you would run into serious issues. Be sure your primary...
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I'm kinda new here too, but if you installed GRUB2 on the 80gb disk and you are booting from the disk you originally had ubuntu & windows 7 on you would run into serious issues. Be sure your primary...
I'm not sure what was doing it; it only happened after I set up windows, it may be a dell issue or something. Working now. I used the "something else" option, created a / partition a /home partition...
Thank you oldfredd for all your help. I figured out the entire issue now. I removed the /boot flag from sda5 and it recognizes my recovery image, I factory reset my hdd.
this is where it gets...
I did use the windows tool to shrink the partition leaving ~500 gb for windows and leaving ~400gb for ubuntu.
before doing ~anything~ (i was on fresh factory settings) gparted showed a /boot flag...
I'm not sure why, but I checked on gparted before I installed ubuntu and both sda1 and sda5 had the /boot flag. I'll remove on sda5 once I solve my current dilemma... My dog ate my windows repair...
FYI I'm a total noob to all forms of Linux...
When installing Ubuntu I lost access to Windows 8. It shows up in GRUB but when I choose it it gives me "Command not found 'drivemap'". I've done...