Abhinav Srivastava wrote:
1. The grub loader disappeared.
Windows does not play well with others. It always overwrites the master boot record, which disables Grub.
Abhinav Srivastava wrote:
3. Any attempts to restroe grub failed. It wouldn't find the "stage1".
Exactly what did you do? Did you try the procedures to recover Grub
here?
Abhinav Srivastava wrote:
What can I do next (other than backing up my HD and reformatting/partitioning the whole thing.)?
You may want to post over at
Ubuntu Forums. They may have some in-depth knowledge that escapes me (I'm a mere Ubuntu user). Personally, I'd start from scratch, but I store all my important data on a NAS, so it's not a big deal.