Dual Boot no longer works
There are multiple problems, I think.
I am running an old HP Pavilion PC with WinXP. I had installed Ubuntu on this machine about a year and it worked fine as a "dual boot" -when I booted the machine I would get this screen that allowed me to choose between running Ubuntu (default) or Win98. I think this is "Grub" - yes?
Recently, I think the computer had some disk errors - Windows booted up the other day and suggested a restore, so I did that to a date last week. Now the machine boots directly to XP only; no Grub, no Ubuntu.
There are two CD's/DVDs, but only one works, the DVD ROM. There is also a 3.5" floppy (yeah, I know, ancient). I've changed the BIOS to boot off of the DVD-ROM.
I d/l the latest Ubuntu distro and burned it onto a DVD using my Win7 machine, but the file shows up as a WinZIP file and will not boot from the DVD player in the old PC.
I have also tried Wubi (on the burned DVD) which asked to unintall Ubuntu first - which I did - and then tried to reinstall from the DVD. It seemed to be doing this, but when then asked to reboot the machine to complete the reinstall. When I did this, it booted up as WinXP.
I have read through the other Q's but they are either 2-3 years old, or the responses are too confusing....I am a Linux newbie.
I love Ubuntu, but need to run it in the dual boot mode. Not sure if this is a hardware issue or a software issue. Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks.
~j
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