<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Alternatively you could fire up a live cd to give Gparted a chance to look at the drive. If you see a Linux and Swap partition then go ahead and reinstall Grub. If not, well you have the disc already running so go back to the desktop and choose INSTALL, hth, Brent Brent wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:49D25D29.7050903@shaw.ca" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> 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: <blockquote cite="mid:49D25B9C.6080506@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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??? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>