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Fixed Windows - Now Ubuntu Won't Boot

Asked by Will Shank

I have two SATA drives on my system. Windows XP is on the #1(0?) and Ubuntu is on the #2(1?). Recently I lost the ability to boot into Windows and none of the standard remedies could fix the problem so I reformatted the #1 drive and reinstalled Windows.

Now, I no longer have the ability to boot into Ubuntu. I booted from the Ubuntu CD and tried a solution that was suggested to me:

Boot off the Live CD; Open a terminal;

sudo grub
>root (hd0,0)
>setup (hd0)
>exit

When I typed the setup line I got this message:

"Error 17 Cannot mount the selected partition"

Now I am stuck. Can someone please help?

Will Shank
Toronto

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Connor Imes (ckimes) said : 		#1

Here are two links that might help. The first is the Super Grub Disk which you can reinstall GRUB easily with, the other explains more about using the regular LiveCD:
http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
A partition like /dev/sda1 is (hd0,0) and sda2 is (hd0,1) and so on.
/dev/sdb1 is (hd1,0), etc...

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