How to recover Ubuntu after installing Windows using Ubuntu live cd
1. Boot from Ubuntu live cd and open console
2. Be administrator
sudo -i
3. Find linux partition (/dev/sda7 4409 6435 16273408 83 Linux)
fdisk -l
4. Create a mount directory
mkdir /media/root
5. Mount linux partition to this directory
mount /dev/sda7 /media/root
6. Confirm that you can reach linux directories
ls /media/root
7. Install grub2
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda
8. Reboot Ubuntu without live cd
9. Update grub to see other operating systems
sudo update-grub2
Alternatives
3. sudo gparted
9. update-grub
added 11 years ago