I had windows 7 installed, I had installed linux mint. I freed up one of my partitions from windows drive management to remove linux and now when I load, the screen I get is error: filesystem not found. grub rescue prompt.  What can I do to fix it?
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My operating system was Windows 7, and recently, I installed Zorin OS (linux based on Ubuntu). At first, when I turned on my laptop Windows started automatically. I used a program to make the Windows boot loader come on and ask me what to start.   If I chose Linux, then the Linux GRUB comes on and asks me what to do. I want to remove the GRUB. I want to keep my Windows boot loader.
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When the bootloader (GRUB) is broken, I cannot access neither Ubuntu nor Windows.  I heard that an easy solution to fix this is to use the Boot-Repair tool from an Ubuntu liveCD (or liveUSB).  What are the steps to do this?
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I have a PC with Ubuntu and Windows 7. Now I am intending to remove Ubuntu from there. If I login from Windows and use a Partition tool to delete Ubuntu and reclaim its space, I am afraid it would affect booting because boot menu is GRUB.   How would one take care of the same? I do not have a Windows media because it came installed with the PC.
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I currently have an Ubuntu-Windows Dual boot. However, I would like to try out a new OS so I burned Linux Mint to a USB stick.   I would like to install Linux Mint and remove Ubuntu while still keeping my windows dual boot. I've already backed up my Ubuntu setup so I can wipe it out.   In the Linux Mint installer, should I choosing the "install alongside windows" option do this?
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I can boot Ubuntu from USB, but when I took the USB stick out of the laptop and booted again, I got an error saying   Error: unknown filesystem. grub rescue&gt;   What can I do to fix this?
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I am just about to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, just need to make sure I know how to remove it later.  I know from past the major problem was when I removed Ubuntu, I either still got into the GRUB booting menu, or I couldn't boot at all, and had to format HDD and start over. Now I found an article practically saying the Windows loader should be back upon deleting Linux partition, so I want to make sure:  If I have Windows and Ubuntu dualboot, and I want to get back to Windows booting quickly itself without choosing from any booting menu, is it enough to just delete the Ubuntu partition? Will the Windows loader override GRUB?  Thanks!
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I have a small issue. I was having some issues in getting some libraries to work and to resolve it, i deleted some shared libraries by mistake(sudo ...).Now ubuntu fails to boot up but i can access the files from recovery mode. I can see my home folder intact but i cannot even run sudo nautilus as it says it shared libraries not found. The data in my home folder is quite important and i want retrieving it is important. I am running a windows dual boot, if it helps. If anyone could help copy the home folder to a windows drive from the terminal itself(as i can access it at recovery mode) it would be of immense help. Thanks.:-)
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A friend of mine recently gave me a laptop that wasn't booting past the Windows screen. I replaced the hard drive with a new one and put the old hard drive in my comp. to try and recover the data.  Windows 7 didn't recognise the main OS partition indicating some filesystem corruption (disk manager showed it as a RAW drive instead of NTFS). Incidentally, the hard drive has two other partitions: the small 100 MB one was fine in Windows and the 10 GB Recovery partition was fine after Windows ran a disk check).  Then I booted up with a Linux live CD (Slax) and the filesystem was recognised fine. However, when trying to copy files, many files would cause errors each one holding up the copy process by about a minute. I'm copying about 120 GB of data with thousands of bad files so this means it takes forever to copy.  There are big files (videos and photos) and small files (documents).  What I need is a way to copy files from a dying HD so:   if a file is bad, it fails silently (not interactively) it fails quickly (&lt; 1 seconds ideally) it optionally deletes the bad file from the destination (not necessary)   so that the process can be done overnight.  Do you know a live CD where copy behaves like that or parameters to cp I can use or the settings for ddrescue I need to use or some other method to do this (I'm a linux noob)?  Alternatively, do you know a way to mount a broken filesystem in Windows (it looks like there are errors in important locations so Windows doesn't recognise it as NTFS). Then I can try xcopy.
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It's my first time installing ubuntu. I have Windows 7 and 8 before in my laptop (Acer Aspire 4752z). After Ubuntu (12.04) installed in my laptop, the Windows boot loader didn't recognize my Ubuntu so I updated grub from a live USB.   And after grub updated, Ubuntu was booting perfectly but my Windows wasn't listed in the grub menu. So I follow someone instruction to update grub again. And after reboot, the grub menu didn't show anymore.   After searching about this problem on the net and trying to update grub again and again, I decided to delete the Ubuntu partition from live USB. And shortly after, I booted to Windows with Hiren boot and I used mbrfix. But i think it failed. Now i cant show my BIOS setup or boot from DVD or USB.   After that, the only screen i can see after booting is:  error: unknown filesystem grub rescue&gt;
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I've got a swap partition, but the System Monitor in Linux Mint says, 'Swap not available'. I guess I've forgot to set 'Use as: swap' on install.  How to fix this?
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I went ahead and installed windows 10 on my windows 8 and Ubuntu dual boot PC. All went smooth and Windows 10 works perfectly however the computer automatically boots to Windows and the grub launcher is missing. The partitions are still there I just need some help getting Ubuntu back. Thank you in advance!   Edit: I found a way around it. I don't know of this works for everyone but I went in to the control panel and went to update and recovery. Then I went to recovery and booted into uefi.  Then I selected boot from device and my Ubuntu partition was there and I could boot into it.  Feel free to post other solutions though!
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I normally dual-boot with 12.04 and Win XP pro sp3 on a Thinkpad R60.  I needed to reinstall windows because of problems piling up, so I ran the computer's built-in hard-disk recovery software.  I told it not to mess with the other partitions, but somehow it deleted the Linux partition.  That's what I was using to backup all of my windows files, so now everything I have is gone.  I just ran the USB setup with linux, and the partition is deleted - it just shows it as empty space.    Is there ANY way to get all of my files back?
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I am installing Linux on Virtual Box but it says that the computer currently has no detected Operating Systems. What would you like to do?     1) Erase disk and install Ubuntu Warning: This will delete any files on disk.  What should I do?
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I've installed ubuntu 13.10, but after rebooting I get the message:  GRUB loading: Welcome to GRUB!  error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found Entering rescue mode... grub rescue&gt;   I have the following partitons setup:  /dev/sdb5:  /boot  ext4   500MB /dev/sdb6:  swap            4GB /dev/sdb7:  /      ext4    60GB /dev/sdb1:         ntfs   900GB   I have already tried solution from "" and "" but did not get success.  I am using 1TB external HDD for this and don't want to mess the windows on /dev/sdaXY . i have acer travel mate with Intel i5 processor,4 GB RAM. I am using iso image of 64 bit ubuntu named "ubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso" .. Please help me, I have tried various solution but did not fix it for last 3 days.
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I currently have Windows 7 and Linux Mint installed.  When my PC starts up, it shows me the Grub menu, it shows an entry for Mint Linux and the Windows boot menu.  I am wondering, if I was to install Elementary OS, would it be automatically added to grub or do I have to put some command in the terminal?  I also want to ask, when I boot from my Elementary OS cd, and install it, just before it finishes, it shows some kind of error saying some error about cannot install to grub or something, I've tried installing to a separate partition and alongside "Them", but had no luck.  I'm really new to Linux, and want to keep my Mint Linux and Windows 7 because I have files on them.
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I did a fresh install of ubuntu 11.04, then I installed Windows 7. So I decided to fix the grub after win7 install using the ubuntu 11.04 Live CD.  Disaster:  instead of  $sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/media/uuid/ /dev/sda  I entered  $sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/uuid/ /dev/sda  Now when my system boots, it stops at the grub console  grub>  My problem is exactly as this one  but I have not been able to fix my problem. Thanx for your help.
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I want to completely remove Ubuntu from my system. But if I delete the partition, the Grub files will be deleted and that will leave me "Bootloader-less". How can I workaround this?