tsondie21
January 5th, 2009, 12:48 AM
Hello.
I decided to install ubuntu on an external hard drive because I do not have much room on my internal laptop hard drive. After installing it to its own partition on the external, I found that I installed grub onto the internal hard drive. I was able to boot into both ubuntu and vista when the external HD was plugged in, but I was unable to boot into vista when the external was not plugged in. I repaired the vista MBR and so now I can boot into vista no problem. The only thing, is that I cannot boot into ubuntu now because I erased grub. Is there any way I can install grub onto the external partition with a LiveCD or is reinstalling my only option.
If reinstalling is my only option, at what point do I choose which HD or partition to install grub into??
Thank you all so much in advance!
I decided to install ubuntu on an external hard drive because I do not have much room on my internal laptop hard drive. After installing it to its own partition on the external, I found that I installed grub onto the internal hard drive. I was able to boot into both ubuntu and vista when the external HD was plugged in, but I was unable to boot into vista when the external was not plugged in. I repaired the vista MBR and so now I can boot into vista no problem. The only thing, is that I cannot boot into ubuntu now because I erased grub. Is there any way I can install grub onto the external partition with a LiveCD or is reinstalling my only option.
If reinstalling is my only option, at what point do I choose which HD or partition to install grub into??
Thank you all so much in advance!