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

My dual boot desktop was running only Windows 7 until it crashed on a windows update.

Couldn't get it started again even after all the usual things that might fix it, so I installed Ubuntu 12.04, which has worked very well.

unfortunately Carbonite doesn't run on Linux yet, and so I called Microsoft support to see if we could be Windows 7 up and running.

Their attempts to get Windows 7 running resulted in writing a new MBR for windows, which failed and also somehow caused the loss of ability to boot into Ubuntu also.

How can I get back to Ubuntu?

I don't want to lose my settings in Ubuntu.

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    There is additional info required, Trent. Do you know which partition Ubuntu is installed to? If so, you should be able to boot a live cd/usb to mount and chroot the Ubuntu partition. Then you can reinstall GRUB to the MBR. – matt davis Sep 23 '12 at 02:51
  • You dont want to lose any of your settings, boot using a live ubuntu cd and just download bootinfo script from this http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ link and pastebin the results here. So that we can help you. – karthick87 Sep 23 '12 at 05:41
  • @mattdavis is right. Paste the output of the bootinfoscript as i have given you the link in previous comment. So that we can reinstall grub. – karthick87 Sep 23 '12 at 05:44

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