Grub missing

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:47 +0100, KING Farrel wrote:
> I have a dual boot of windows XP and Ubuntu on my Laptop. I reformat
> the XP partition and install it again, after which find out that my
> grub is missing. I don have access to my ubuntu. 

Yes, installing Windows always takes over the Master Boot Record of the
hard disk and prevents other systems from booting. What a nice and
friendly attitude of MS towards their paying customers, isn't it.

> What are the possibilities of installing the grub?
> 
> I have ubuntu version 6.06 LTS

The much more friendly Ubuntu people have written a guide on how to
recover from the bully's attack:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

Cheers
Mario