[OT]Please Help!

[Leigh Honeywell]

It's not a vista thing, I've installed Vista into a specific partition 
before, leaving my Ubuntu partitions alone.

The only situation I can think of is some kind of windows "recovery" CD 
as comes with a new computer [1], which often re-image the whole drive.

-Leigh

[1] before you say "computers today never come with Windows CD's, only 
those annoying recovery images", this is nearly always but still not 
true on occasion.  I purchased a netbook which came with an actual 
recovery CD last August.

Joel Goguen wrote:
> Is that with Windows Vista?  I know that XP allowed editing partitions, 
> so long as Windows was installed on the primary master (yes, my last 
> Windows XP install was back in the IDE-only days...) it would let me 
> create and delete partitions to my heart's content.  I've avoided 
> Windows Vista installs, all I know is that it's reportedly prettier and 
> faster than an XP install.
> 
> On 09-03-31 03:12 PM, Brent wrote:
>> Of course your can try, but past painful experience has taught me that
>> when Windows installs it wipes the drive. Note that during any Windows
>> install there is no partition option given as is the case with a Linux
>> install. It just blindly goes ahead and installs itself regardless of
>> who you want it to play with.
>> Brent
>>
>> Joel Goguen wrote:
>>> Hold up, a full reinstall may not be necessary. Try reinstalling GRUB
>>> as already suggested, a reinstall isn't needed if that succeeds and
>>> finds your Ubuntu installation.
>>>
>>> On 09-03-31 02:49 PM, Brent wrote:
>>>> Typically, Windows takes over the entire hard drive when it installs so
>>>> I believe you have lost your Ubuntu partition. Reinstall Ubuntu but say
>>>> good bye to any data you may have had on that partition. Rinstallation
>>>> will allow a new Linux partition and reloads grub for your , now. dual
>>>> boot system.
>>>>
>>>> Brent
>>>>
>>>> Jentry Jibben wrote:
>>>>> Quick question. i am not ture if this is the right channel to go
>>>>> through, but what ever.
>>>>>
>>>>> i have recently needed to reinstall windows on my computer. and
>>>>> previously i had dual booting both ubuntu and windows. now my loading
>>>>> screen is gone. and i cannot reach unbuntu!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a hot key that i press when the start up is loading???
>>>>>
>>>>> how do i get unbuntu back???
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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