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I can't boot into a usable system anymore. What should I do?

I installed Ubuntu on a laptop's hard drive along with Microsoft Vista. It was working perfectly, but a few days ago it stopped working. I do not know what has happened....on starting it is showing the following screen:

GNU GRUB VERSION 1.99-12ubuntu5......
MINIMAL BASH-LIKE line editing is supported. FOR THE FIRST WORD, TAB LISTS POSSIBLE
COMMAND COMPLETIONS. ANYWHERE ELSE TAB POSSIBLE DEVICE OR FILE COMPLETIONS.
GRUB>
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  • sory, i do not have live cd..as i have downloaded it from ubuntu's website.. – harry May 16 '12 at 16:04
  • it is a windows installer (.exe) wubi... – harry May 16 '12 at 16:43
  • @harry -- see if the linked 'possible duplicate' helps. Are you able to make a LiveCD with a different computer? – belacqua May 16 '12 at 20:45
  • harry, it's quite possible to recover this. This happens to Wubi installs where the root.disk is corrupted or missing. You can find more discussion here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/85268/grub-booting-problem (I mentioned this before but my comment was deleted). – bcbc May 18 '12 at 06:20
  • I am doing something similar HERE!!! http://askubuntu.com/questions/366001/ubuntu-13-10-grub-2-0 – Etienne Lawlor Oct 26 '13 at 05:30

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Boot the Ubuntu Live CD.

Press Ctrl-Alt-F1

login as root

sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub
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