recovering linux boot loader after reinstalling windows

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How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)

i have a notebook in which i installed windows, and then linux on another partition. Today, i had to reinstall windows and now i don't have access to the boot menu when the computer boots. Now i can't seem to get the grub boot menu, so i can't access my linux system.

I have tried to follow these instructions from the Ubuntu Documentation, but i can't seem to get it.

I ran the Ubuntu Live CD and
1 - I can't find Boot-Repair
2 - in the terminal, when i run fdisk -l, i get:

/dev/sda1 - HPFS/NTFS/exFAT  
/dev/sda2 - HPFS/NTFS/exFAT  
/dev/sda3 - Extended  
/dev/sda5 - HPFS/NTFS/exFAT  
/dev/sda6 - HPFS/NTFS/exFAT  
/dev/sda7 - Linux swap / Solaris

Please help, thanks

I can't see the linux partition in the list - do you remember which partition it was? It lookls like Windows install just wiped the linux partition, so reinstalling GRUB is not really your first priority now... — Sergey, May 21 '12 at 01:54
http://askubuntu.com/questions/18566/how-do-i-restore-grub-after-windows-has-deleted-it — Raja G, May 21 '12 at 02:14
yes, Sergei, i think you may be right. i really f**d up this time — André Alçada Padez, May 21 '12 at 12:48

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

Find? I thought that you had to use the live cd and then install boot-repair, as seen here. Is that what you did?

This is also relevant.

Hope that helps!

Did you perhaps had an image of your windows system in a hidden partition and recovered it from there? If that's the case, then you probably lost your ubuntu partition. Just saying cause I had the same problem and the only thing I could do is install everything from the start.

recovering linux boot loader after reinstalling windows

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