Rick_Dallas
Member
Hey, seems like most of the dual booting that I've been reading about consists of all the OS being on a single drive.
In my case, I have Vista installed on drive C: and Ubuntu installed on drive F: Originally, I installed Ubunut from within Vista which worked out fine. Had a nice dual boot menu (assuming grub but maybe not).
Anyway, all was well until one day Vista would no longer boot. So used Gpart to create a new partition and restored from backup. All good now EXCEPT my nice dual boot menu is gone, gone, gone......:S
So anyway, have been looking for a way to get the menu back so I can get back to Ubuntu. Ubuntu is still there but I can't figure out how to access it.
I thought I had found a solution with easybcd and maybe I have but if so, I haven't figured it out yet.
So have both Vista and Ubuntu already installed. Each on their own drive. Just looking for a boot menu that will allow me to boot to either system. Sounds simple, right? I'm sure it is but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. I don't even know what the executable is for starting up Ubuntu!
Anyone got any thoughts on how to proceed? BTW, I can see all my drives, Linux files from within Vista if that helps.
As with lots of folks, very familiar with Windows but can barely spell Lenux!
Appreciate any and all thoughts.
Thanks!
In my case, I have Vista installed on drive C: and Ubuntu installed on drive F: Originally, I installed Ubunut from within Vista which worked out fine. Had a nice dual boot menu (assuming grub but maybe not).
Anyway, all was well until one day Vista would no longer boot. So used Gpart to create a new partition and restored from backup. All good now EXCEPT my nice dual boot menu is gone, gone, gone......:S
So anyway, have been looking for a way to get the menu back so I can get back to Ubuntu. Ubuntu is still there but I can't figure out how to access it.
I thought I had found a solution with easybcd and maybe I have but if so, I haven't figured it out yet.
So have both Vista and Ubuntu already installed. Each on their own drive. Just looking for a boot menu that will allow me to boot to either system. Sounds simple, right? I'm sure it is but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. I don't even know what the executable is for starting up Ubuntu!
Anyone got any thoughts on how to proceed? BTW, I can see all my drives, Linux files from within Vista if that helps.
As with lots of folks, very familiar with Windows but can barely spell Lenux!
Appreciate any and all thoughts.
Thanks!