[ubuntu-za] Installing new version of Kubuntu

[Andy Rabagliati]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Ian Whitfield wrote:

> I currently have running on my computer Kubuntu 10.04. I have two
> physical IDE hard drives with the system on Drive 1 and '/home' on
> Drive 2. To complicate matters there is a 3rd drive in this machine.
> It is a SATA drive and when I set-up 10.04 from 9.10 I moved a lot
> of data onto this drive first. To be safe, (I thought), I un-plugged
> this drive when I installed 10.04 but after I had finished if I plug
> this drive in again the system will not boot at all.
> 
> So can someone point me in the right direction to....
> 
> 1) Get this SATA drive working again under 10.10 WITHOUT loss of the
> data on this drive.
> 
> 2) What do I need to do to do a fresh install of 10.10 and NOT
> overwrite the existing data in '/home' on my second drive?

Everything is safe - you just can't boot ...

It is recognising the SATA drive as the first drive. Maybe your BIOS
has options in the Booting section to change the order of the drives ?

Simplest would be to put the SATA drive in an external USB enclosure,
and plug it in afterwards.

Or ..

Boot from CD in rescue mode. I always use the Alternate CD, but perhaps
the Desktop CD has a rescue mode as well.

Find the dist you installed Ubuntu on, and ask it to re-install grub.

That is a menu option on the recue CD.

It *might* install grub on your SATA disk - it should not affect the
data already on that disk.

Cheers,   Andy!