Adding Linux to boot menu - EasyBCD?

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I've recently installed Windows 7 over my Vista install, on the main partition on my drive. As such, the Windows bootloader has now overtaken Grub, so I can't boot into Crunchbang.

I've tried fixing this with Easy BCD, by pointing a second boot option in the direction of Crunchbang; however, when I press enter on this option in the boot menu, I get an error message saying that Windows couldn't be loaded.

Is there any way of mending this through Easy BCD, or do I need to burn a Live CD, and fix Grub through that?
 
Sorry - i know nothing of Easy BCD - but I would boot from usb and repair it that way. Making a linux bootable usb stick is trivial these days.
 
Burn a Live CD and fix Grub. Assuming you had a working grub before:

Just run grub from the live cd then
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)

Obviously changing the above numbers to match your setup.
The above assumes you have 2 partitions on the first hardrive and the menu.lst (Linux) is installed on the second partition. Windows on the first. You'll find more info via Google if you want to learn exactly how it all works.
 
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Might be too late now but you could probably do it using EasyBCD. Seeing as CrunchBang is ubuntu based you'll just have to use the beta version of EasyBCD which works with ubuntu. I had the same problem when I got windows 7 and ubuntu 9.04, but it works perfectly with EasyBCD 2.0 beta.

EasyBCD 2.0 beta Link
 
Cheers mate, haven't got round to doing Grub yet so that sounds great.

Link doesn't work though :(

EDIT: don't worry, working now! Thanks :)
 
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