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sonofzerg
April 12th, 2009, 06:05 AM
Hi,
I was using dual boots Ubuntu 8.10 and Vista. Then I made a stupid mistake when resized Vista using Gparted live CD to make more room for Ubuntu. After this I couldn't boot into Vista, but Ubuntu was fine I could boot to Ubuntu no problem. So then I tried tons of methods to get Vista boots again (fix by Vista DVD, recreated bcd, even tried with XP CD...). Nothing worked and at that time I'd already messed up Vista badly. So I decided to reinstall Vista. I format my drive C and install Vista as brand new. And obviously I can't boot to Ubuntu. Is there a way for me to boot to Ubuntu?

Here is my thought (correct me if I'm wrong): I can use Ubuntu cd to use the live version and get into my Ubuntu partition. I can modify grub to make it boot before Vista (I guess). But how?

overdrank
April 12th, 2009, 06:09 AM
Hi and welcome, RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows) should help

sonofzerg
April 12th, 2009, 06:49 AM
Thank you for your quick reply. It saves my day.