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ubuntu is not at all booting after partition format

Asked by srikanth gotlagunte on 2007-05-29

i insatalled windows XP and ubuntu in one sysytem[dual boot option] when i format the XP the ubuntu is not at all booting please help me

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Solved by:: srikanth gotlagunte

Solved:: 2007-05-29

Last query:: 2007-05-29

Last reply:: 2007-05-29

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said on 2007-05-29:

You installed ubuntu then formatted the xp partition? How did you format it?

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srikanth gotlagunte (gssrikanth84) said on 2007-05-29:

hi alan

thanks for repply

actually in XP o/s i was faceing some problems.so i thought of formate the Xp.when i was reinsatalling XP it asks for partion to insatll xp so i select the previous partition in which XP was installed.i did`t touch the ubuntu partiton.after reinstalling XP i din`t find Ubuntu o/s.so the system is directly booting from XP o/s.after that i have some partition tools like PQMAGIC ,VOLMAN.so when i used that tool i find their is a data in Ubunte partition.then i think
MBR is missing.please help me for solving this problem

regards

srikanth

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said on 2007-05-29:

Unfortunately reinstalling XP caused your MBR to be written over.
To restore the MBR and grub, please follow the instructions of this page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows