Boot Failure, need some help

[Liam Proven]

On 11/03/2008, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
> *I have a 120gb hd, which use to work just fine, but the other day I
>  installed it and at when booting up, it says no filesystem please insert
>  a system disk...
>
>  After trying to access it using knoppix 5.1, it shows the hd as hda, but
>  when I try to mount it, it too says could not mount device hda, I can
>  not determine the filesystem type and none was specified...
>
>  This hd has some files that I would like to retrive, so if anyone can
>  help me out as to how I can get grub working at boot up again I'd
>  appreicate it...
>
>  The hd has ubuntu version 7.4 on it...
>
>  Thanks Larry

If Knoppix can't read the partition table, it could be that you don't
*have* a partition table any more. This is a very bad thing.

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