When I boot my Dell Vostro 1400 I get a grub error. I suspect this happened since after it was powered off suddenly while being booted. I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP.
I booted from an Ubuntu USB drive and can see my partitions and files in the Ubuntu file explorer. The only unsual thing (not sure if it was like this before the computer wouldn't boot) is that there are two partitions that seem to be duplicates of each other: /media/MEDIADIRECT and /media/MEDIADIRECT_ The contents of these are Dell bloatware that allows you to boot into a slimmed down version of Windows that plays video and audio files--don't care if this bloatware is deleted, if those partitions are causing the problem.
When I booted from the USB drive I ran the following command:
Any idea what I should do? Can fixparts fix this?
I booted from an Ubuntu USB drive and can see my partitions and files in the Ubuntu file explorer. The only unsual thing (not sure if it was like this before the computer wouldn't boot) is that there are two partitions that seem to be duplicates of each other: /media/MEDIADIRECT and /media/MEDIADIRECT_ The contents of these are Dell bloatware that allows you to boot into a slimmed down version of Windows that plays video and audio files--don't care if this bloatware is deleted, if those partitions are causing the problem.
When I booted from the USB drive I ran the following command:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x92fc5002
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 307323513 312576704 2626596 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 160650 84068144 41953747+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 84068206 312576704 114254249+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 84068208 267239423 91585608 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 307323513 312576704 2626596 0 Empty
/dev/sda7 267241472 303353855 18056192 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 303355904 307320831 1982464 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order