How to recover my mint 8 after installing windows xp ?

abdulhalim · 01-22-2010, 10:08 PM

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

neonsignal · 01-22-2010, 10:17 PM

There is a howto in the Mint wiki.

abdulhalim · 01-23-2010, 01:51 AM

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

neonsignal · 01-23-2010, 04:02 AM

Did you get the message after the find step?

Code:

find /boot/grub/stage1

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

abdulhalim · 01-23-2010, 09:37 AM

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

yancek · 01-23-2010, 09:50 AM

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.