Windows7 upgrade, grub2 lost,

[rodh]

My Toshiba laptop was Vista and Vista would not update and the Windows answer desk tier 2 tech upgraded me to Windows7 now I can't find Grub 2

[oldfred]

If your LInux partitions were not overwritten, you should just be able to restore grub2's boot loader to MBR.

How to restore the Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7 bootloader
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreUbuntu/XP/Vista/7Bootloader

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#Fixing_a_Broken_System (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreUbuntu/XP/Vista/7Bootloader)

[rodh]

with this live cd I can see the files from my ubuntu 10.04 install but I can't get grub---- tried to install boot repair disk via terminal but said it couldn't find the package

[rodh]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ boot-repair
boot-repair: command not found
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf99b3d64

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 3074047 1536000 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 3074048 194389827 95657890 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 476344320 488392703 6024192 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 194390014 476344319 140977153 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 194390016 464809983 135209984 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 464812032 476344319 5766144 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[oldfred]

What disk were you installing Boot-Repair into?
Your 10.04 is only still supported for server, not desktop, so any updates that are not server related will not work.

Either the full Boot-Repair ISO or a new 12.04 or 13.10 Ubuntu ISO should be used.
LighterWeight (Lubuntu based) Boot-RepairCD
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/files/
Boot Repair -Also handles LVM, GPT, separate /boot and UEFI dual boot.:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair


Also instructions for DVD or USB flash drive
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
Write image or burn image not copy ISO as one large file to flash or DVD.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/USB%20Installation%20Media
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

[rodh]

Thank you, I haven't had much time to do this and your last post got me past the BLOCKHEAD mode. I was able to get the Boot-Repair disk from 12.10 and it worked just fine and I now am enjoying 10.04 on my laptop again. Everything is still here and working properly. I would also like to Thank Everyone involved in writing the Boot-Repair program.