why is linux not being booted?

harshit99 · 07-01-2009, 10:57 AM

hiii... i formated my windows recently.. i was using windows and ubuntu linux ... both having different partitions. i formatted my windows drive and re-installed it.. now i dnt get any option while i boot to use my linux... and neither my memory provided to linux had been freed.. what shud i do to get my linux back???

i also tried standalone bootloader but it didnt work!

jdkaye · 07-01-2009, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by harshit99

hiii... i formated my windows recently.. i was using windows and ubuntu linux ... both having different partitions. i formatted my windows drive and re-installed it.. now i dnt get any option while i boot to use my linux... and neither my memory provided to linux had been freed.. what shud i do to get my linux back???

i also tried standalone bootloader but it didnt work!

Been asked and answered a zillion times on LQ. It is possible to fix this but installing Windows over a running linux OS is asking for trouble. The opposite (installing linux over windows) is not.

Just do a quick search on this site and you'll see how to fix it.
Cheers,
jdk

onebuck · 07-01-2009, 04:24 PM

Hi,

Welcome to LQ!

You could use your install cd to recover the Linux as long as you did not format the partition. If you re-installed M$ and did not use the whole drive but just the original M$ partition then it is possible to recover.

As was suggested do a LQ search as this has been covered and your problem is not unique.