Do you have GRUB installed on your boot partition? I mean, is GRUB doing the bootloading for both Windows and your current Ubuntu installation? If so, then after you install your new Linux distribution, GRUB’s menu may still have a reference for your old Linux distribution, along with a reference to the new Linux distribution. So, when you boot, you’ll see options for both Linux systems, even though only one of them actually exists. If this happens, but it doesn’t really bother you (because you just select the correct system), then you can just leave it.

I don’t know how much you know about GRUB. But, you can remove the old, invalid Linux distribution entry from your boot list if you very carefully go into /boot/grub as the root user and edit menu.lst. First you’d want to save a backup of the working menu.lst, just to be safe. You’ll see sets of entries beginning with “title” and ending with “boot”, one for each operating system that shows up when GRUB displays your system options. You can delete the entry sets related to the Linux distribution that is no longer on your system.

Wow that was a ton of info … you rock!

Let me try and answer this …

No problemo on the formatting issue. I guess Grub is installed. After reading your email and the article, I at least understand what it is and what it does. I know nothing about it other than that however. It sounds to me like it operates in similar fashion to boot.ini but is perhaps more robust. And you absolutely can use any communications with me and use them to your liking. Since you are so helpful, perhaps I’ll bug you some more!!! Never feel obligated and I’ll update you on my progress when I return home early next week. (I’m traveling for business).