I first attemped to install ubuntu on my existing windows drive only to have it fail at the end with an error about dynamic disks. I had attempted to repartition 100g. When I restarted I got chkdsk because errors on the drive. It seems that it did repartition the drive though because I lost the 100g but there is no ext part that shows up for that drive in gparted.

I decided just to get another hard drive and setup ubuntu on that. It installs fine and boots to a boot menu and starts. When I shut the machine down and boot into windows it starts fine. Now when I shut down after windows thats it I loose the boot menu and have to use the live cd to get the machine to start. The only other thing I can do is hit shift and I get loading grub but then it just hangs at a command promt.

Im guessing this may have something to do with the first failed installation but I cant find that original install to delete, except for the missing space on the disk.