evil elvis
July 26th, 2009, 04:36 AM
Greetings. I had been running Ubuntu 9.04 with the ability to boot into ******* as needed. Made a wrong turn messing about with Grub 2 (my fault) and ended up having to run fixmbr from xp's recovery console. I have used this numerous times over the past several years without a problem. This time it took out 3 OS's on 3 hard drives. One of those drives contained the backups. Don't know why, can't prove it but it did. Enough whining.
My question: is there a sequence of options I can select during a normal Ubuntu install that will basically re-write all of the system files while leaving the user files/directories intact?
I have been rebuilding my system for the past week and this would offer me an easy finish. I'm tired. Speculation about why this happened probably won't help me. Pretty sure I know since all 3 hard drives were Maxtor's.
Regardless, any suggestion will be appreciated.
evil elvis
My question: is there a sequence of options I can select during a normal Ubuntu install that will basically re-write all of the system files while leaving the user files/directories intact?
I have been rebuilding my system for the past week and this would offer me an easy finish. I'm tired. Speculation about why this happened probably won't help me. Pretty sure I know since all 3 hard drives were Maxtor's.
Regardless, any suggestion will be appreciated.
evil elvis