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Duo Boot

Jun 16, 2010 3:50PM PDT

On my Dell XPS M1330 (4gb ram, 2.2ghz processor), I had a nice installation of Vista and Ubuntu 10.04. I upgraded to Windows 7, the transformation went great and all of my files went over to the windows 7. Now, when I boot I no longer choose which partition to boot on, it just loads Win7. I've read around a little and it seems windows 7 tries to take over as the only os on the computer. How to I get the option to choose a partition on startup? or did windows 7 eliminate my ubuntu 10.04 during the upgrade?

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Yes that's all true.
Jun 16, 2010 8:28PM PDT
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Thanx Bob
Jun 17, 2010 6:07AM PDT

Hey thank you for the quick reply. Just to clarify, I would not be wasting room on my hdd to install ubuntu again because win7 removed the ubuntu from the hdd, correct?

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You can answer that fast.
Jun 17, 2010 6:09AM PDT

Boot the UBUNTU cd and it will show the state of the partitions as you begin the new install.