Grub is lost

[Colin Law]

2009/9/20 hamideh jafarpoor <hamideh_jafarpoor at yahoo.com>
>
>  I have recovered my laptop computer Toshiba satellite A100 using the recovery disk and I wanted it to preserve the partitions. On the first partition I had XP and the second one I had Ubuntu 8.0.4.
>  Now I don't have access to my linux os! :( There is no grub loading at the start up the computer. What should I do? All my work and documents are in the second partition working with ubuntu!
>

Unfortunately sometimes a recovery disk is effectively a disk image
and may completely obliterate the whole disk.  Hopefully this is not
the case here.  You could first boot off the live CD and check the
second partition is still there, or look at the partitions in windows
I suppose.

Colin