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gilestelnarbe
September 24th, 2012, 11:16 AM
Hi there
its been some while that I was using Win7 + Ubuntu Oneiric alongside eachother, but my Win7 crashed and I was forced(!) to reinstall it in its old drive by formatting the drive, which clearly deleted my bootloader info.
my HDD is partitioned to a NTFS drive for Win7 + Ubuntu drives + a NTFS drive which can be accessed by both.
So I have no access to ubuntu.
please help
Bucky Ball
September 24th, 2012, 11:51 AM
You could try Boot Repair.

Boot from the LiveCD, install Boot Repair from Synaptics or Software Centre (yes, it will install in a Live session) and launch/run it.
NikTh
September 24th, 2012, 11:53 AM
And a Link for boot-repair , here : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
:)
gilestelnarbe
September 24th, 2012, 01:13 PM
any other option? its a 300+ MiB package and I'm using a low-speed internet connection.
Pand5461
September 24th, 2012, 04:59 PM
any other option? its a 300+ MiB package and I'm using a low-speed internet connection.
Boot from LiveCD (you have one, once you've managed to install Ubuntu, don't you?), install GRUB afresh (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows#The_termina l_way)
NikTh
September 25th, 2012, 01:46 AM
any other option? its a 300+ MiB package and I'm using a low-speed internet connection.

You made some mistake here , I think


The following NEW packages will be installed:
boot-repair boot-sav boot-sav-nonfree gawk glade2script libsigsegv2 pastebinit python-configobj
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,312 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,707 kB of additional disk space will be used.
titanSavior
September 25th, 2012, 03:34 AM
I believe he means he no longer has the disc and needs to re-download Ubuntu. I believe there is a program GRUB4DOS that you can run in Windows to install it. I looked it up and downloaded it and it was 801kb.
Bucky Ball
September 25th, 2012, 03:43 AM
Thread moved to Installation & Upgrades
YannBuntu
September 25th, 2012, 10:37 AM
any other option? its a 300+ MiB package and I'm using a low-speed internet connection.

If you have a Ubuntu CD (or liveUSB) , you can boot on it, choose "Try Ubuntu", then install and run Boot-Repair this way:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair#A2nd_option_:_install_Boot-Repair_in_Ubuntu