How to recover my mint 8 after installing windows xp ?
 

Hello everyone
i'am new in linux ..
last week i installed new mint distribution Helena 8
last day i reinstall my Windows XP , now my linux has gone .
... how can i recover my boot loader ?
...

step by step plz

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btw i tried this comands in Live CD:

sudo apt-get install grub

after this command .. this message appears :

Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.


plz help :scratch:

There is a howto in the Mint wiki.

i Tried this how to before , but i didn't get answer ..

every time i tried , i got this message : Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.

then .. nothing

Did you get the message after the find step?
Do you know which order the partitions are on the drive? (if you do, you may be able to skip the find step)

no i do not :-?? ... i followed How to .. step by step .. maybe i am not patient

Post some information on your hardware, drive types etc.
Use your Mint CD and get partition information to post here: sudo fdisk -l (is the command to use)

This should tell us the partition Mint is on and what other partitions you have.