Tom, You can simply browse your partition via the liveCD's file browser (or/and 'gksudo nautilus' if root permission needed). This will allow you to backup your documents to an external disk (or DVDs..) Then follow the tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuReinstallation
Your partition table is ok, so you shouldn't need TestDisk nor other "data recovery" tool. Regards Yann 2012/9/24 Tom Davies <[email protected]> > Hi :) > Errrr is it time to think about data-recovery? ie get a 'new' hard-drive > and make that bootable and repair the 'old' hard-drive while booted into > the 'new' one? > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery > (my variant on the advice effectively uses the 'new' partition to make the > machine act as a new machine with the 'old' drive only plugged back in > after you have successfully booted into the 'new' drive a couple of times. > Don't plug in nor unplug while powered up of course!). I think in the > guide they tend to prefer LiveCds but i try to go for something faster even > if it takes a little while to set it up. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *To:* Tom Davies <[email protected]> > *Cc:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, 24 September 2012, 18:08 > *Subject:* Re: re Rescue Mode (Tech Support Department) > > Hello Tom, > > I fear your system partition is badly damaged, because Boot-Repair > couldn't detect any GRUB executable (grub-install) in it, and worse: no > apt-get executable at all. > So the problem is not GRUB. > If i were you, i would try to fix the system files this way: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuReinstallation > > Regards > Yann > > > > 2012/9/24 Tom Davies <[email protected]> > > Hi :) > If it's not possible to recover Grub2 is it possible to reinstall? > > > Personally i still haven't got out of the old Windows-support habit of > just reinstalling instead of spending time trying to analyse and fix. > Grub2 should be reasonably easy to install on almost any type of partition. > > > I think i might create a special partition purely for booting from. A > boot partition. It's a bit old-school as i haven't seen one for years but > they used to be very popular. In some situations it might be possible to > copy&paste your grub config file but even if not the newer version of grub2 > would probably be able to find all the OSes that are bootable on your > machine. > > > I don't think it finds ones inside a virtual machine that you would run > from inside one of the partitions (although obviously you can install > directly into a virtual machine that could then boot any bootable OSes > inside that virtual machine). I guess if you could somehow get the bios to > start-up a virtual machine then it could let Grub2 boot that but i think > that would be really weird and freaky and possibly even scary. > > > Anyway, many apols if a reinstall has already proven impossible. I > haven't been following this thread so it might be an inherently bad > suggestion but reinstalls have always worked for me! :) > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > >Friends, > >A special Thank You to yannubuntu for the excellent work in > obtaining a boot repair report at http://paste.ubuntu.com/1219427/. > > > >Unfortunately, the only remaining solution is to figure a way to > mount the LVM partitions and copy off any data to save. Don't > know how to do that. > > > >But I did want everyone to know that GRUB2 cannot be recovered in > certain situations, which is too bad. I would like to know if > this is an OS-dependent operation or if GRUB should be able to be > fixed in any situation. > > > >Thanks all. > > > >KitchM > > Tech Support Department wrote: > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub > >
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