dual boot Wxp & ubuntu 12.04

I hope I'm in the right place to get some help with this. I tried to install ubuntu 12.04

alongside windows xp home. Everything appeared to be progressing normally and I was prompted

to eject the cd and reboot. The result was:

error: no such device: 1c8bea6b-44fd-4bef-b0cd-f1ef87666ec2

grub rescue>_

I typed ls and got this

(hd0)(hd0,msdos2)(hd0,msdos1)(fd0)

The machine is a dell dimension 8250 1Gb Rdram Maxtor 40G [C drive] WD 20G [D drive]

I wanted to dual boot linux/windows, install linux to D (the only choice given).

I have downloaded and burned a bunch of utilities in anticipation of problems. The

machine will still boot from the dvd (not the cd, I don't know why it was ok before)

I got the computer to boot from

SystemRescueCD4.1 {sysresccd.org}

One of the programs is something called partimage:

sda1 fat16 31.35 Mib --- windows rcovery?

sda2 ntfs 37.24 GiB --- this is windows (I think)

sr1 unknown 0 bytes --- what is this? (dvd drive maybe)

sdb1 ntfs 5.58 Gib

sdb2 extended

sdb5 ext3fs 12.53 GiB --- this is Linux (I think)

sdb6 swap(v1) 1024 MiB --- Linux sxap file

systemrescueCD also had a chioce to boot a linux opr system

it had found. I'm sure it worked because I was prompted for my install password and linux is running on the Dell

(I'm writing this on my HP machine)

I think all I need is to get grub2 in the right place but don't

know how to proceed from here.I have been around

computers since Wln 3.1 but new to linux so will have to

ask for your patience

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