HELP ME I'm stuck in Windows!!!

[Karl F. Larsen]

Michael White wrote:
> OK guys, bear with me.
>  
> I have been using Ubuntu for about a week and I decided that I wanted to have two partitions on my HDD so that I could have both Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows XP SP3.
>  
> So I downloaded GParted and modified my Ubuntu partition to half it's size. Now there is 3 partitons on my 148 gig HDD. One that was the Ubuntu partition (71.72 gb), another unallocated (71.72 gb), and a third (5.58 gb) not sure what the third one is for or where it came from.
>  
> Then I took a burned copy of Windows XP SP3 and installed it onto the unallocated partition. It told me that I would have to deactivate the Ubuntu partition and I said yes.
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> Now I'm stuck in Windows HELL! What I want to do is to reactivate my Ubuntu partition and make it so that when I boot up my PC it ask's me which OS I want to use.
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> Thanks in advance for the help.
>  
> -Mike
> 
> 
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> 
	What you did was let Windows write to the MBR over the top of 
the Grub stuff there. Do you have a LiveCD of Ubuntu 9.04? If 
not you need to get one.


Karl


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