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Hi there. Firstly, apologies if I'm asking something that has been answered before. I have tried to search but I'm having to use a very slow, temperamental computer which keeps freezing up, so its difficult.
Basically, I have a Dell Inspiron with several partitions. I had been dual booting Win 7 and Linux Mint but decided I no longer wanted the Linux installed. So (stupidly) I deleted the partition without copying the MBR and let the laptop restart. Now I just get a black screen with "error: no such partition. grub rescue> at the top.
I've tried booting from a Win 7 installation disk and using /FixMbr or /FixBoot but when I reboot it just takes me back to the above error message.
What am I doing wrong and what should I do please?
Well as I said, I've tried that but it didnt work. It still goes back to the error message after a restart. I don't know if its because the boot record is on the Dell recovery partition (?) rather than the C drive? I not sure about the command line stuff, maybe I'm not getting it right to rebuild the MBR? I don't know enough about it to just blunder about, hence my request for help.
sky14
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Posted December 11th, 2012 06:00
Fixed it in the end by reinstalling Linux Mint.