Thanks for the help, but I actually already managed to fix it. The 
reason for the delay is that my weekend was consumed with attempting to 
do so.

Incidentally, I was prepared for Windows to overwrite my MBR, and I did 
manage to fix that. But the first time I booted it up, it changed 
Ubuntu's partition type, which caused an all-to-generic "GRUB Error 17" 
next time I tried to boot. After way too much Googling* I managed to 
figure out what had happened, run sfdisk to fix it, and then reinstall 
GRUB on the drive itself (rather than the Ubuntu partition).

- Nathan

*By which I mean "searching using the Google engine."

Mislav Marohnić wrote:
> On 7/2/07, *Nathan Weizenbaum* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hey folks,
>
>     Due to Windows overwriting various bits of important information about
>     my Ubuntu partition ...
>
>
> Windows had just overwritten the master boot record. Don't touch or 
> reformat anything, just boot with an Ubuntu CD/DVD, remount your 
> Ubuntu installation filesystem somehow and tell GRUB to restore the 
> MBR via command line. I've done it a long time ago following a short 
> guide I googled out and it really didn't take long.
>
>
> >


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