windows overwrote boot record

[Juan Kawada]

I wonder. If i install ubuntu, just on a tiny partition, It will rewrite the
boot record and fix this right? what would happen if I uninstall the new
ubuntu installation after that? would I be in another dilemma with my boot
records?
I need to get kubuntu back, so I may have to do that if nobody can come up
with any ideas. If worse comes to worse i'll make a small install of ubuntu,
and just change grub's default os to kubuntu.

also, If I install ubuntu now, would it correct the partition numbers so
that I can fix this? if so how would that be done? Just shooting around
ideas here, as i'm at a complete loss.
I've convinced three of my friends to start using kubuntu regularly, and yet
i'm still a total newbie.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Karl Klinger <karlok at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Karl Klinger wrote:
> >
> >> It looks like your partition table is messed up.  The extended partition
> >> should always be sda4.  This is my fdisk -l output:
> >>
> > Huh?  There's absolutely no reason that the extended partition needs to
> be
> > sda4.  You simply make any one of the four available primaries extended.
> >
> > I have _far_ more messed up partition tables than that :-)
>
> Yes, I see now that this can be done, but the partitioners that I have
> used (cfdisk, the partitioner on the alternate install cd) always make
> the extended partition sda4 and the first logical partition sda5.
> Juan's fstab shows that this was the way his disk was originally
> partitioned:
>
> > # /dev/sda6
> > UUID=c9b44b26-5f41-48f0-bee9-778991065600 /               ext2
> > relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> > # /dev/sda5
> > UUID=01c0a273-845f-4658-a37b-16257de6e0ef none            swap    sw
>
> Reinstalling Windows must have changed the partition numbers.  This
> seems to confuse grub:
>
> > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
> >  (hd0,5)
>
> Grub still thinks the root partition is sda6 when fdisk -l reports it as
> sda5.  The question now is what can be done about it.
>
> Karl
>
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