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I wanted to get rid of my partitions. A friend decided to tell me about GParted and I said, "OK, sounds good". I deleted my Linux partition and forgot about GRUB.

Now I get a GRUB boot error. So I decided to just reformat my OS, because I didn't know what to do. Now GParted won't detect my devices.

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Typing on your phone isn't an excuse for missing important details: What exactly did you do when "reformatting your OS"? How are you running GParted if you formatted everything? From a Live CD? What does GParted show, exactly? And finally, what do you actually want to do? What is your real problem? Do you want to install Linux again, or something else? – slhck♦ Mar 9 '12 at 16:06
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-1 Question doesn't make any sense. – Daniel Beck♦ Mar 9 '12 at 16:18
Sounds like you formatted the drive and thereby erased the partition table. Reinstall Linux and it will among other things create a new partition table. – Kyle Jones Mar 9 '12 at 16:24

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Reading between the lines, you either wanted to: 1) delete only the linux partitions of a multi boot disk (keeping windows OS?). or 2) delete all partitions on your disk and reinstall a new OS.

If 1) and you are now trying to boot windows with a broken grub, you probably want to restore the windows boot loader. If so, boot off a windows CD/DVD, go into repair mode and enter:

fixmbr
fixboot c:   (or whatever drive you boot from)

If 2), then need to either reinstall a new OS or (if there is still another linux partition) fix your grub installation with either of these instructions: Fix grub boot errors or grub2 reinstall

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I had 6 differeny ubuntus installed from a previous error. I talked to some friends who had suggestted gpartion to get rid of Tue Ubuntu partions. – reaply Mar 9 '12 at 21:06
I had 6 differeny ubuntus installed from a previous error. I talked to some friends who had suggestted gpartion to get rid of Tue Ubuntu partions. – reaply Mar 9 '12 at 21:06
Ok, then you just need to reset grub2, via the links above. – jdh Mar 9 '12 at 21:38

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