@someone: Your posts are highly unclear. The issue has nothing to do with Windows, GRUB or easybcd. Are you sure you fully
understand the install procedure of Ubuntu/Mint? It's one thing to memorize a 10 line tutorial somewhere over the Web, but I strongly suggest you took the time to read and
understand, at least,
the official documentation.
Here's in short what you want to happen:
Boot in an install environment
This is the first thing you want to do. Generally speaking, you can work from any existing OS (you could theoretically do this from Windows), but the easiest is to boot into an Ubuntu Live CD.
The way to do this is to insert your CD in your drive, and configure the BIOS to boot on your CD. The BIOS is the first program that is executed when your PC is turned on. It will then look for a bootloader then an operating system.
By accessing the configuration menu (pressing F10), you can define the BIOS "Boot order". It's a list of prioritized choices for your BIOS to decide where to look for a bootloader. For instance:
- Hard Disk Drive
- DVD
- USB
- Network
You want to move the DVD entry until it is on top of the list so that the BIOS goes looking for a bootloader there first. Now you reboot your computer.
If all goes correctly, the computer will now find the bootloader on your CD, and boot on the Live CD OS. At this point, the computer hasn't read your HDD and doesn't know at all if you have Windows installed, or GRUB or anything you want to do with easybcd on your disk.
The Install process
Ubuntu Live CD comes equipped with a very powerful program called
Ubiquity. Ubiquity allows you to make changes to your hard drive, so it's a very clever thing to
back up any important data before you start it!
Ubiquity will then
install Ubuntu on your PC, meaning writing the appropriate changes to your disk, following the settings you give it. It will install the OS and a bootloader that goes with it, by default it will be GRUB2. Once it's over you should reboot, and take out the CD.
Boot from hard disk
This time when you reboot, the BIOS won't find the CD (because you took the CD out or you change the boot order from the configuration menu) and will go the the HDD. It finds GRUB2, that sends it to your proper installed OS and ... voila!
It's important that you understand the above, so you can ask us more precise questions. Saying "my laptop doesn't read ubuntu nor mint" is not expressive at all. What kind of answer do you expect? We don't have crystal balls.