My PC has three hard drives sda (160GB), sdb (320GB) & sdc (320GB). It had XP installed on sda and when I first installed 8.04 the installer script automatically installed it on sdb. Both systems worked well.
I recently attempted to upgrade to 9.04 by first installing 8.10 via CD and then using the network to move to 9.04 as per directions.
In the course of doing this I foolishly assumed that as I had a standard dual-boot installation, the upgrade would automatically preserve my dual-boot arrangement.
When the partition editor opened the dialogue asked if it should use the whole disc. As 8.04 is on its own disc (sdb) I said yes. I didn't get a warning saying this will also wipe sda but maybe it's happened as now I can no longer access XP.
I've attached some screen shots. The file browser indicates that of sda only 6.4GB is available and I'm hoping that means the remaining 150GB is still NTFS and my Windows files. On the other hand Gparted suggested something else.
In addition there is a major problem with the way 9.04 loads (presumably with the Grub script). For some reason the screen won't activate (meanwhile I can enter my user name and password and it clearly installs the OS). The only way I can get it to start is to keep starting in safe mode and running thru the available options. By this means it starts eventually (but I'm not sure what sequence repeatably does the trick).
Synaptic Package Mngr doesn't show any defective packages. Running apt-get update hasn't solved the problem.
Detailed help with this would be very much appreciated as it's well above my limited expertise.
Ted Pritchard
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