What just happen? Grub read error message

[Alex Janssen]

Brittany Fleischer wrote:
> My system was working very good when my computer went to scrrensaver mode, it then freezed my system to the point where I had to push the power of button. 
>
> Now I am recieving "grub error" messages along with auto restart when I try to start up my system. I then get the error:
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> Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 5ec9b9c0-238e-49a9-8c09-81460343f436
> Starting up
> Uncompression error
>
> --System halted"
>
> What is going on? I hope i don't have to reload ubuntu because I do have some important files that I am wanting to save.
>
> Brittany
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>   
I forgot to say you can boot from a live install cd to copy your files 
off to a USB device as long as your disk is still readable.
Alex

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