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No boot screen after re-partitioning HDD

Asked by Mike Doucette

I had Windows 7 64bit and Ubuntu 11.10 32bit installed to my 500gb hard drive, but i was running out of space in the Windows partition. So i used Partition Master to delete the Ubuntu partition (I got fed up with waiting for windows to start when i wanted to play games(Intel GPU = No games in Linux for me), so i decided to just uninstall it and use a VM) and make the windows partition larger. When i did this, i completely forgot that Ubuntu was supplying the boot screen. When i realized that i just f'ed up, i tried to reinstall Ubuntu 11.10 using the along side windows option. It installed and booted, updated, then shut down. I tried to restart the computer again and now it says

error: no such device: (Then it says a ling line of text, im thinking the mac/serial number of a disk)
grub rescue>

And it stays at this screen.

So what i want to know is how can i get it to use Window's boot screen again (I would prefer this, since Windows like to restart randomly without asking me) or how do i get Ubuntu to use its boot screen.

BTW, By boot screen i mean the OS selection screen.

If there is no solution to this, i have a spare HDD i can boot to so i can recover my files.

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Mike Doucette (m1976mustang) said : 		#1

By the way, i am new to Linux, so say things in terms i can understand, haha.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Boot to windows 7 install CD and you can reinstate the boot loader.

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Mike Doucette (m1976mustang) said : 		#3

I already tried to use the disks repair utility, but it is useless.
Only relevant option was "startup repair" and all it did was load for a few seconds then tell me to remove any USB devices. (Which i know isn't the problem, i have been using the same USB devices for a few months.

Anyways i ran the repair option, then tried to restart and got the same error. I know the error is from Linux since it's saying "grub"

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#4

you can
1) download the recovery disk for windoze 7 from the microshaft support website and run command to fixmbr,
2) reinstall ubuntu. this is update your grub and provide you with a dual boot

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

You could use https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling_GRUB2 - chroot method .
If you can't recover Windows but want to wipe out Ubuntu, a solution is to make a 1GB partition, and use previous method to reinstall Grub2. Grub2 doesn't need Ubuntu to boot Windows.

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