Yeah, your options will be Ubuntu, Ubuntu safe mode, memtest and windows.

And your right about GRUB putting itsself into the MBR and it has nothing to do with boot.ini but thankfully there is a grub config file for the boot menu

To remove the redundant entries you have to edit the grub menu config file which in Ubuntu is normally located in /boot/grub and called menu.lst

open terminal and type gksudo /boot/grub/menu.lst and this will open a text editor with the config file, if you want paste the contents of that file to Nopaste and I will make the changes for you and paste back :-)

thanks a lot for that pal, very helpfull indeed, i DO like the NOPASTE idea, but of course i have already found one piece of Hardware that doesnt work .......

guess what ......

the Network Card !, it works in Windows ok, but not in UBUNTU LOL.

tim

I find it fairly unlikely that the network card wouldn't work.

Can you open a terminal and paste the results of 'ifconfig' here please?

HIP hip hooray, i have sorted out that litlle problem now, all by myself, LOL, it was my Router which was restricting access, i had to enter in the MAC address (plus computer name), the one occasion it worked with Windows i must have disabled the Router protection !

I seem to be doing ok for now, thanks. the main problem is that the PC i am playing with isnt in the best position for my Seat and bi-focal glasses (its on the floor), LOL, i am getting neck ache and eye ache etc. so am giving it a rest for the remainder of the evening.

tim

Lol can't blame ya for that.

Personally I think linux can be a pain in the arse at times as it's different to what you've learnt, but in my opinion it's worth learning.

There are also a few REALLY cool apps for linux that you can't get for windows (yet)

If you have a good computer, you can run Beryl, it's a desktop eye candy program.
Beryl-project.org
To see some of what you can do with it, go to YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. and search Beryl.
That has sold about as many people to Linux than anything else out there.

Beryl is awesome, it's a bit of a pain getting the xsessions configured properly though, not tried it in feisty yet though, might be a bit easier, but in debian and edgy it was a pain.