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You will be always welcome. Would be pleased to offer you a Tim Horton. I am in Ottawa, Canada.

Followed your instructions, Boor-repair put Grub only on sdb.
IT WORKS.
Booting options appears, and will boot either in WIndows or in Ubuntu.

How do I thank you for taking so much time helping...

The first 320GB boots Windows,
the second one gives this:

error: file not found
grub rescue>

However I got to where I am, I did delete and transfer a lot of files, so that we should be around 60-70% full.
Now, what is the next step?
I ran another boor-repair summary:...

CORRECTION:::::::::::::::::

IGNORE THIS MESSAGE:
When I use the Files icon on the desktop, I see Places and two other sections called Devices and Network.
In Devices, I see all the drives,...

It's me again. I am not able to change, move or cut or delete any file with this CD Ubuntu.
If I look at Permissions, it says "You are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions."
I...

I think I have been able to look at the files in my "sdb3". I could delete or transfer most of that. BUt when I try to do that it tells me I don't have the permission to change anything. How do I...

Is it a case where the drive is too full (98%) making it impossible to change the grub, and therefore there is no way of doing anything? (catch 22) I cannot see the drive to empty some of its...

So, how do I erase that non-functioning 98% full drive?
I cannot see it in Windows. If I knew how to identify it, could I reformat it while installing a fresh copy of 13.04? Here is what Windows...

Would it mean that the only solution would be to re-install Ubuntu 13.04 from scratch? Or should I install 12.04?

New Bootinfo report:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/5794039/

I don't have any new info. But, I guess I have to say something so that your Advanced search finds me !

I got the three chroot to run this time.
When I rebooted, it booted still in Windows.

I have to leave now, I hope I can get some more of your help tomorrow perhaps?
Thanks for trying real hard...

Ran into difficulties.
1 ---- boot-repair was not found, so I reinstalled it.
2 ---- then I made a selection for grub to use sdb
3 ---- then boot-repair asked me to run three chroot commands.
...

I'm afraid this is getting beyond my capabilities.
I tried to modify the boot drive, but the bios doesn't say "sda" or "sdb". Just a bunch of numbers and letters. I tried the five and when it ONLY...

Thanks for your reply.
I installed and ran Boot-Repair.
It gave the following URL:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5790760/

I hope this means something to you...
Gilles

(I am not an advanced user)
I used to have a dual boot system - Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04 - Everything was working fine.
My motherboard blew up. I had to replace it, and they installed Win7.

I tried...

Thanks.
I got back onto ubuntu by using `previous version`.
I looked for etc/fstab, but I can't find it. I looked under file system, and under etc, but it was not there. I don't know how else to...

I am not sure where to post this.
Yesterday, everything was fine, I did the update that was proposed, and everything was fine after that as well.
This morning it would not boot; when I tried to...

OK. I will try that. I had just used the first download file that showed up.

I"ll check more carefully this time.

THANKS

Gilles

When I entered locate ubuntu-desktop, I got the following:
/usr/lib/taskse1/info/edubuntu-desktop.preinst
/usr/lib/taskse1/info/kubuntu-desktop.preinst...

I didn<t know i had a choice. Yes it was the server version.
Gilles

I tried that. It asked me to install startx giving the instruction to use (unfortunaely I didnt write that down). I installed it as requested: it ran screens and screens for several minutes. When I...

I installed Ubuntu 11.04 from a downloaded CD onto an old computer. It replaced the old Windows that was on it (that is what a wanted). The machine is a AMD-64, I think the video is a Radeon.
When...

Done that, except that Ctr Alt F1 did not work, but I could use Applications - Accessories - Terminal, and I gave the commands in terminal. It seemed to do what it was supposed to. I rebooted, and I...