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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?

For the first time I have installed Ubuntu onto an old Windows 2000 system we have at work. I downloaded 12.04.1 and burned the .iso image to a disk. I loaded the CD, restarted the computer and went through the installation process. Everything seemed to work fine throughout the installation. I got the installation complete popup and restarted my computer. After the restart, I was given no option to load ubuntu from the select OS boot screen. The only option I have here is to load windows. I have tried to restart again but I still am not getting the option to load ubuntu. I loaded windows and looked at my computer and see that the hard drive space for windows is down to 25gb which is what I set for it to have when I installed ubuntu. When I look at the cd in explorer, I do see wubi.exe so I am assuming that the installation came from wubi. Can someone lead me in the right direction as to why this may be happening? I appreciate any and all help.

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This is first time answering to a question, I also new to ubuntu like you. First of all you have to start your computer with windows then open ubuntu disk in the drive. then open windows installer and choose the option to help start ubuntu without disc or something like that. But this process would be distroy your datas in the hard drive. So backup them before try to this. I do this some weeks ago and it helps me to install ubuntu to my desktop

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You may want to attempt to manually repair GRUB from your LiveCD. Instructions on how to do so can be found on this Ubuntu Documentation page.

In case you haven't already, you may also want to check the integrity of your downloaded .iso file by performing an MD5 sum on it. If the computed checksums don't match, then your download was corrupted, and you should try downloading it again and burning a fresh image.

No guarantees either of these will fix your issue, but it's worth a shot to narrow down some possible causes.

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