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ubuntu wont boot after windows install

Asked by Darkstalker

I was trying to install windows Xp on a external HDD and installed it on my laptop by accident. I deleted The windows partition and ubuntu wont boot now. I tried fixing with the LiveCD. I opened terminal started Grub as root

<sudo grub>

then i got this:

< [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For
         the first word, TAB lists possible command
         completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
         completions of a device/filename. ]

grub>

then i continued by typing:

<find /boot/grub/stage1>

it didn't work so then i tried:

"find /grub/stage1"

and it still didn't work. then i tried entering:

grub> root (hd0,1)

grub> setup (hd0)

and what i got was

"checking if " /boot/grub/stage1" exist... no
checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

i dont know what to do any more other than doing a fresh install of ubuntu, but that means reformatting the HDD which i dont want to do.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#1

are you going to install windows again? you probably want to do that before fixing grub. you'll just have to do it again afterwards anyways :)

check out the super grub disk. it's really useful:

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

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Darkstalker (phreak-1369) said : 		#2

thanks for your help but it's too late now lol, i saved all my files and did a fresh install of ubuntu. and no, i didn't wanna intall windows, as i stated b4 i installed it on my laptop by accident. I was trying to get rid of it and repair ubuntu. Thanks again.