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Hello, I recently installed Kubuntu on my second hard drive(I wanted to dual boot with Vista) and when I started up, I had the Grub 1.5 Error 17 screen. I ...
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    Angry Grub Error 22 problems at start up! I really need help! Nothing has worked so far!

    Hello, I recently installed Kubuntu on my second hard drive(I wanted to dual boot with Vista) and when I started up, I had the Grub 1.5 Error 17 screen. I tried everything that I could find online to somehow fix this issue and I couldn't find any solution that worked. Maybe I was doing something wrong but I'm not sure. Then I decided that maybe if I use Ubuntu's LiveCD I could somehow delete Kubuntu from my hard drive and try again. I used GParted to delete Kubuntu off my hard drive and restarted. I then received the same screen with the following "Grub 1.5 Error 22". Again, I searched online for an answer and some forums said that I need to run some sort of thing in Windows RE. I don't have my Vista disc anymore...I lost it. Now on to my question, is there ANY WAY I can fix this Grub Error using my Ubuntu liveCD? I booted off of it right now and that's how I'm typing this.
    Please help. I can't afford to delete my other hard drive with Vista on it.


    Edit: I really need this problem fixed ASAP please. I really don't want to have to use the liveCD every time I want to use my computer


    Edit 2: I looked through the forum for some help on this..and the people who have had error 22 did not have the same problem as me. As I stated, I DELETED Kubuntu from my hard drive and I have the error. I do not have any blank CDs or USB sticks to boot from. Can I somehow fix my grub WITHOUT fixmbr or anything? Is there some sort of Terminal command I can use? Here is some more information on how my partitions are set up...

    Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x80de80de

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 1 30402 244196352 7 HPFS/NTFS

    Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x8fb38fb3

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS
    Last edited by AcousticMinja; 07-17-2009 at 06:17 PM. Reason: Adding more information

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    grub can be reinstalled from the live cd but you must have linux already installed for that to work.
    if i understand you right you now have no linux installed so just reinstall this and it will install grub as part of the set up

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    Beg, borrow or steal a blank CD and burn and use a Super Grub Iso to delete grub and reinstall windows MBR. You can also make a bootable floppy of Super Grub Disk also. No Linux command I know of in Terminal will reinstall Windows Master Boot Record (MBR). But Super Grub Disk can when you don't have a Windows Disk.

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