GRUB error 22 issues

[Guest]

Hi,

Some time ago I installed Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 7 which worked fine but after a while I decided I only needed W7. In my stupidity I deleted the partition with Ubuntu and since then the GRUB showed error 22.
I have tried using FixMBR and Rescatux but none of them worked. I found out that I could boot W7 when I had the recovery CD in the CD-rom drive and was using this for some time.

As I'm only using my desktop for standard media, office etc (and not anymore for CAD etc) I decided to go for Linux again. I have successfully installed Kubuntu 11.10 and I thought it would overwrite the GRUB and or update it but I was wrong. Now I can only boot the distro from the live USB...

I have tried various things which I found on google but can't seem to fix it. Anyone here that has some advice?

I have following setup:

2 x HDD

- sda with one NTFS partition (contains backup) and one emty space (contained the previous Ubuntu and has been formatted)
- sdb with one / partition and one /home partition. (both primary)

I believe the Grub is still trying to find the ubuntu installation in sda.

[oshunluvr]

Re: GRUB error 22 issues

Assuming you installed from the liveCD/USB it should have installed GRUB properly.

Is it possible you've installed GRUB to the partition or to the second drive rather than the primary boot drive?

I am assuming you've install Kubuntu to /dev/sdb1.

You may be able to fix it this way:

Boot to the Live USB.
Make sure you do not have any hard drive partitions mounted.
Enter these commands in a terminal:

sudo -s
mount /dev/sdb1 /media
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media /dev/sda
umount /media
reboot