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obligato
November 18th, 2012, 04:51 AM
Hi,


My laptop had winxp that was dual booting with ubuntu 12.10.

Installed win 8 Pro successfully, now win xp can't load. That's OK as I plan to junk it.

I still want ubuntu but it won;t load either. the wubildr.mbr in c:/ is there.

Have a C drive spilt into 3 parts: C/D/E. Ubuntu is on E.

The "ubuntu-gnome-12.10-desktop-i386" iso installer file is on E.

What's the best way to get ubuntu to work? Should I just re-installed the iso file from E drive or somehow point Ubuntu to the correct file to load? How is that done?

nagubhai
November 18th, 2012, 11:30 AM
Check this thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2085374

Mark Phelps
November 18th, 2012, 03:01 PM
Hi,


My laptop had winxp that was dual booting with ubuntu 12.10.

Installed win 8 Pro successfully, now win xp can't load. That's OK as I plan to junk it.

Unlike with Win7, Win8 will NOT dual-boot with XP. MS removed support for that just like they removed support for XPDM video drivers (allowing you to use XP drivers in Win7).