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All partitions gone while trying to install Lubuntu

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I hope someone is able to help me with this, because the prospects of loosing my windows partition aren't making me feel optimistic.. :/

A few days ago I installed Kubuntu, dual-booting with Win7 on my Eee1215B. Realizing Kubuntu is a bit heavy on my old netbook, I decided to try Lubuntu today. When I started the installation from the USB stick, I was asked whether I wanted to overwrite the previous Kubuntu installation. I accepted that, not touching any of the partitionin alternatives. Then suddenly, the installation program produced an error message stating that there was an unencrypted swap drive active, and aborted.

Now I am not able to boot anything, and all my partitions are apparently gone...

I am now accessing the web using a Boot-repair-disk USB-stick that I made as a precaution before the installation, but the standard boot-repair option doesn't do anything for me. It does, however make a boot info summary: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6618196/

For example, it states that 'According to the info in the boot sector, sdb1 starts at sector 0. But according to the info from fdisk, sdb1 starts at sector 2048', indicating that the stuff is still there - I just have to restore the partition information somehow.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can do this?

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