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You're going to have to create a bootable 'rescue CD', and boot into it, to access a shell and run the gparted and/or fdisk as suggested below.<BR>
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Possibilities include:
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page">http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page</A>
<LI>or some from the list here: <A HREF="http://www.livecdlist.com/">http://www.livecdlist.com/</A> (look for 'Rescue')
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On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:00 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<BR>
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Thank You. If I cant even get into the OS how can I do what you have suggested.<BR>
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Is there something that I can do to get to the shell to run commands ?<BR>
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-Narahari<BR>
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Kaerka Phillips <<A HREF="mailto:kbphillips80@gmail.com">kbphillips80@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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Based your details, this doesn't sound like a hard drive failure, but instead, like there is a gpt bootsector installed rather than an mbr, or other unrecognisable bootsector.<BR>
One way to determine this would be to use either gparted or fdisk on the drive to determine the mbr/gpt type, and if you do have gpt in use, then install grub2 instead of regular grub to handle this. If it is an mbr, but grub hasn't properly installed to it, you may need to do a grub-install to change the mbr. Another area that could be an issue is if the boot partition or drive isn't set to active, this could cause a similar failure.
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