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I have a new laptop with Windows 8 on it. I made a new partition and installed Ubuntu on it. For some reason I deleted the Ubuntu partition. Now upon restart I have the grub rescue screen. I've googled and googled and here's what I have tried:

the ls command gave me 4 options. I tried more than 10 variations (hd0,msdos1) to (hd0,msdos10). This results in either no such partition or unknown file system error messages.

Then I tried

set perfix=(hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub

root=(hd0,msdos6)

(and did it with the numbers on ls command) but it never works when I type 

insmod normal

(or)

insmod (hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub/normal.mod

I still get the error.

I've tried many times with no success. Even booting from an Ubuntu CD doesn't get me to boot menu - I press shift, tab, escape , f12 but nothing happens - only grub menu.

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you should check out this recent question and answer regarding boot-repair: Windows 10 upgrade led to grub rescue

If that doesn't work, you could try replacing grub with the Windows bootloader like this guy:

None of the answers here worked for me in re-installing the Windows 7 bootloader.

I tried starting with a recovery disk (USB, in my case), and diagnosing startup problems, but no luck.

Then I opened the console in recovery mode and ran

Bootrec.exe /FixMbr

Bootrec.exe /FixBoot

and then restarted.

Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

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