Windows 7 Removed Grub – What Do I Do? (Short Guide)

So I just installed Windows 7 and it removed GRUB. Huge pain in the ass and a lot of the guides online were confusing. I could only boot into my LiveCD and Windows.

So here’s what I did…

1) Boot into LiveCD

2) Open up root terminal

3) mkdir /mnt/tmp

Note that for me Ubuntu was installed to /dev/sda1. You can check where yours is installed with gparted in the liveCD.

4) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp

5) grub-install –root-directory=/mnt/tmp /dev/sda

6) Boot into Ubuntu and run update-grub

Hope it works for you.