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Feedback on the Dell Inspiron 3521

Asked by Karan Bedi

I tried to dual boot my Dell Inspiron 3521 with windows 7(pre-installed with Ubuntu). Windows sussessfully installed buy i am unable to boot my laptop with Ubuntu.

Please help.

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Ara Pulido (ara) said : 		#1

I am afraid we cannot help you there if Ubuntu booted succesfully before you installed Windows.
Probably you have broken the boot partition.

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Karan Bedi (karan1317) said : 		#2

Ok. So there must be some recovery tool/method. Please let me know.

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Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) said : 		#3

Hi Karan,

We're not generally able to help with problems like this, but since I already came across this issue before I can help you out. You need to follow: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

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