I tried to install the new Ubuntu 10.04 onto my Thumb Drive, but for booting purposes it installed the Ubuntu boot loader onto my Hard Drive, when I restarted into Ubuntu it said something about failing to find a proprietary server, or something like that, and wouldn't log in, so I tried to boot into Windows through GRUB, or whatever the Ubuntu loader is called, and it worked, but then every time I would restart it would go through BIOS, and when it got to whe it would load Windows the system restarted, and went through BIOS, reset, etc., so I "reinstalled" Ubuntu, and the GRUB boot loader got me into windows, but next boot I would have to "reinstall" to boot again, so I tried my Windows Vista install DVD to do the startup recovery, but it said it couldn't fix the startup problem automatically, so I "reinstalled" Ubuntu, booted into Windows, and ran system restore, but it has to restart to finish, so it restarted, but somewhere in there I moved BOOTMGR, and ran the Windows Vista recovery again, but it still wouldn't replace BOOTMGR, so I moved it back in Ubuntu, and now when I booted Windows from GRUB it says BOOTMGR is missing, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart, so now I can't even boot Windows at all now, I think GRUB screwed up something for Windows to boot when I installed Ubuntu, so I had been trying to get it back to normal, any ideas anybody No Windows 7 CD's, or anything, just the Windows Vista CD GIGABYTE GA-MA78LM S2 rev 1.0 1 DVD/CD Drive, 1 CD Drive, or maybe 2 DVD/CD Drives 1 500GB SATA Seagate Hard Drive(Original BOOTMGR is in System Reserved partition, which is still marked Boot, but after the GRUB loads of Windows in Computer Management when you go to click "Mark as Active", it says Reactivate, greyed out, on ALL partitions) 2 GB RAM(.5 Shared with Video Memory) I don't really think my Hardware matters at all for this issue, I just want to get back to Windows, and I've learned my lesson about Ubuntu on this specific computer, IT NEVER WORKS RIGHT , but I had wanted to try out 10.04, which obviously was a bad idea, because it took over Windows, and then didn't give me boot options I'm sorry if I don't understand Ubuntu, and I'm using all the wrong terms, but I've barely ever used Ubuntu, and only used the D "demo", on THIS computer, which is now screwed after only about 3 months

I think there are a few threads over at ubuntuforums.org that will help you get sorted, I doubt they'll be difficult to find. Bound to be a HowTo or two in the community wiki as well. Just hang in there. I hope you still have the Lucid LiveCD? You might need it. (You might be asked to add 'chainloader +1' to Grub's configuration-file (grub.conf). It resides in /boot/grub/.) The pitfall here is that Grub writes to the master boot-record - messing around with files will get you nowhere.

I ran bootrec /fixmbr from a recovery disc I created from a downloaded ISO, in Ubuntu demo, and im typing this from Windows now, thank god for ISO