HELP I Can't get in

[pbeesley]

so i went to reinstall hardy over the top of a current install. I selected to reformat the hard drive that hardy was o already while installing. Now install went fine BUT after reboot It wouldn't load hardy :( Grub error 22 I think, something about the partition not being there??? So i reinstalled again...same thing....so i thought I know I'll boot into windows and come on these forums for help.....same thing when trying to get into windows.........

HELP :(

/me cries

[Slim Odds]

Did you look here?

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Troubleshooting

[pbeesley]

trying to reinstall and the install stops at 94% cause it can't install grub in hd0 :(

[pbeesley]

omg I'm going crazy someone please help. I've tried installing about 10times now selecting different options with no luck :(

[pbeesley]

ok well half fixed....I managed to get Hardy installed but not windows XP. Had to delete partition and recreate it. Then JUST install hardy and nothing else :( for the future....what went wrong???

[iaculallad]

A bad partition in you physical drive maybe that after you delete and re-create it, you managed to install Hardy.

[pbeesley]

yeah but I had installed Hardy twice on that partition previously? I just wanna know what went wrong so I know for the future

[housam]

ok well half fixed....I managed to get Hardy installed but not windows XP. Had to delete partition and recreate it. Then JUST install hardy and nothing else :( for the future....what went wrong???

Type the following code in a terminal and post the results please :

sudo fdisk -l
where -l is a small L