windows 7 destroyed grub

[rinar]

i had windows 7 and then installed ubuntu on a different disk. everything was fine until i reinstalled windows 7 and the computer booted right to windows instead of going to grub.
I tried to run from the ubuntu cd

sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
root(hd1,0)
setup(hd1)
quit

but first grub could not be found so i reinstalled it
then stage1 could not be found so i tried copying it from /usr/lib/grub/i386
to /boot/grub but it still couldnt be found and setup did not work.

I do not want to reinstall ubuntu because i have already installed many programs
all i want is grub back the way it was before the greedy windows took it over

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Yes indeed, Windows will always overwrite the bootloader when installed after Linux.

Just guessing here, but are you sure that you reinstalled the correct version of GRUB?

Ubuntu stopped using GRUB Legacy and switched to GRUB2 with their 9.10 release and they configure and work differently.

[rinar]

i do not have grub2 in the synaptic package manager. i am using 9.10 on the cd but i have a previous version on the hard disk. perhaps i have to reinstall grub on my previous system but I can;t get to it.
i installed grub but it removed grub-pc

[oz]

The Ubuntu folks have put together some nice documentation for using either version of GRUB that might be useful to you:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2

You might find GRUB2 listed as 1.97~beta something or other in Synaptic because it's not really up to version 2 quite yet. I'm not running Ubuntu at them moment so can't check it easily.

[devils casper]

9.10 uses GRUB2 only and you have tried to install GRUB Legacy. That process has removed integral part of GRUB2, grub-pc.

Now if you are planning to use GRUB, you have to create menu.lst file manually and configure it correctly.
I would suggest you to reinstall GRUB2 instead of GRUB Legacy.