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I installed inside of windows ubuntu, I had vista, and do a lot of computer work for my job, I had it dual boot, instill after a few days i got the grub error 15, i ran into before messing with linux dirto's i fixed them before with the super grub disc, anyways I used the disc to try to fix this error, this never fixed it and messed up my booting for windows, the "bootmrg missing" error, I ended up trying the vista recovery disc, this didnt work and once i opened my harddrive in a partitioning disk that the partition windows was on with all my files was "unknown file type" ect.. but could tell my other partition's formats.

now i reinstalled unbuntu on a partition, and i love it i always been wanting to get away from windows and havent had a down fall yet, but a few bugs like,

i couldnt boot for awhile because gnome said "cant lock /home/me/.ICEauthority"

i ended up fixing this by going into the live cd and changin permissions on the ICEauthority

ended up working and i even have all my drivers (wifi, video card, ect..) working.

now I think this can be a good thing having linux now, but does anyone have ideas how to recover my files on the unknown partition that was once my windows install?

i have most of my files backed up and put into my new os, but I will lose some important work.

other than this, im loving ubuntu

Thanks for sharing your story!

Welcome, and good on you for sticking it out and finding solutions to your problems instead of just giving up straight away :)

I got the same error actually, and the exact same thing happened to me. I decided to just install ubuntu over everything and installed vista on a partition. I wonder what causes that error o.O?

yeah, the grub error is odd, the super grub disc usually does good on fixing this but i guess not if your dual booting which probably messed up my bootmgr giving me "bootmgr missing"

now after I had everything running on ubuntu with all my drivers and most of my backed up files on it, thats when i got a "cant lock ICEauthority"

which accured after i tryed to hibernate my laptop, it kept giving errors in the dos like prompt.

So I had no choice but hit control+alt+delete to restart my machine.

then it wouldnt login to gnome, where all my drivers and personal settings were.

so the live cd helped alot, lol and I learned from all of this, BACKUP REGULARLY

does anyone know a backup program for ubuntu that will backup my files AND drivers ect..???

search this site for Grub error 15. you should find some joy.