I have used google and other forums but to no avail, I couldn't find an answer to my problem.

Minitool partition wizzard is a great application, but not for merging/swiping partiions. I had an extra partition for windows vista so I decided to merge it with my original xp partition after swiping the old vista partition clean. All went well until it restarted the computer, it does the same process over and over again. I installed ubuntu 10.10 on the old vista partition since it didn't wipe it. The windows xp system is still there but it will not give me an option to boot xp or ubuntu when I start my system. Does anybody have Any ideas? Any help is appreciated.