As I was happy with Live CD of ubuntu Linux 7.10, I installed it on the external 80 g hard drive. Then, a disaster hit me. Boot loader Grub was not installed properly, and I was ended up with no more Windows XP as well as ubuntu itself. As I was not familiar with Grub setup, I tried a few brutal solutions like reinstalling ubuntu and Windows XP; none worked. The final cure was "fdisk /mbr". Hind sight: Why didn't I realize earlier!? In the meantime, Windows has been upgraded to Vista. Vista is working so far so good.
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As I was happy with Live CD of ubuntu Linux 7.10, I installed it on the external 80 g hard drive.
Then, a disaster hit me. Boot loader Grub was not installed properly, and I was ended up with no more Windows XP as well as ubuntu itself.
As I was not familiar with Grub setup, I tried a few brutal solutions like reinstalling ubuntu and Windows XP; none worked.
The final cure was "fdisk /mbr". Hind sight: Why didn't I realize earlier!?
In the meantime, Windows has been upgraded to Vista. Vista is working so far so good.
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