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This morning I tried to be clever and uninstalled Evolution as it kept screwing up my Thunderbird email system.
I have just switched on after being out all morning and I cannot get into my Ubuntu setup. The logon sound and my wall paper are OK, but other than that the screen is blank.
I have tried all the repair options in Grub to no avail. Is there a way of recovering my setup without a reinstall? I really need to get some things from my Home folder.
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Use a LiveCD and copy the contents of your /home?
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Thanks Basil, I was thinking of giving that a try.
I was really wondering if there was a repair option similar to Window$.
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I'd recommend using the fast PartEdMagic 3.0 mini distro or Mint5 LiveCDs, plus a USB stick large enough to copy your /home contents to ? 
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| Is the Recovery Mode boot option available to you? If so there are a lot of Google hints on how to repair a broken Ubuntu desktop.
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Thanks chaps, I have managed to recover my household accounts using the Live CD, so I will now try some more options. I didn't want to lose the last five years accounts by jumping in with both feet.
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Trouble is that evo is quite locked into gnome, you may have removed a dependency for gnome.
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If you are sure that it was uninstalling evo that did it, try
sudo apt-get -install evolution
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Thanks but all I could get is the wallpaper, nowt else. Totally unable to access anything in Gnome. After using the live CD to copy my important files I reinstalled. Big mistake it seems to have screwed the bootloader completely. It left me unable to access neither Vi$ta nor XP.
Fortunately I had an old drive with HH 8.04.1 installed and that enabled me to access Vi$ta which I am now using to type this. I think I need to try to sort out the Grub on the main Ubuntu drive.
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