Getting a GRUB, No Such Partition Error Message

[larrytucaz]

I have a Dell Zino HD desktop PC with Windows 7 installed. I haven't done any dual-boot installations or anything like that, I bought it here and it came having been updated to Windows 7 Professional, activated & the whole bit. It's worked fine, but today when I did a restart, I got an MS-DOS-looking prompt with GRUB, it mentioned "No Such Partition" and it had a place for you to enter an MS-DOS-like command. It was not wanting to move past that.

Thankfully I had system-image backed-up my installation, and had made a system repair disk. I had considered doing a restoral of the most recent one, what I did instead was a system restore (backing up to a previous setup) using the repair disc, I backed it up 2 days (the most recent one).

Even then, initially it was still going to this same screen, a second reboot and, for whatever reason, it made it back, and confirmed the earlier system restore. It's running fine now (I'm using it to type this up) as it nothing had ever occurred.

I did so a Google search for "GRUB No Such Partition" on my Blackberry while it was down, but still basically have no idea what this is.

So, basically, in order that I can figure this out and prevent a recurrence--what in the heck just happened?

LRH

 

[mpilchfamily]

Sounds like after the restart the system either couldn't find the HDD or the HDD had a hickup. If it happens again i'd contact Dell about it to get it fixed or replaced.

 

[larrytucaz]

Update: it only does this when I do a restart. It does not do this if I do a full-blown shutdown and power-on. That same "black cursor" appears but then it moves on successfully and does okay.

Come to think of it, I do believe tonight was the 1st time I had ever done a restart of this particular computer (I've had it less than a month) versus a full shutdown.

Not sure if this means anything, but it's what I've observed anyway.

 

[pcgeek11]

I have a Dell Zino HD desktop PC with Windows 7 installed. I haven't done any dual-boot installations or anything like that, I bought it here and it came having been updated to Windows 7 Professional, activated & the whole bit. It's worked fine, but today when I did a restart, I got an MS-DOS-looking prompt with GRUB, it mentioned "No Such Partition" and it had a place for you to enter an MS-DOS-like command. It was not wanting to move past that.

Thankfully I had system-image backed-up my installation, and had made a system repair disk. I had considered doing a restoral of the most recent one, what I did instead was a system restore (backing up to a previous setup) using the repair disc, I backed it up 2 days (the most recent one).

Even then, initially it was still going to this same screen, a second reboot and, for whatever reason, it made it back, and confirmed the earlier system restore. It's running fine now (I'm using it to type this up) as it nothing had ever occurred.

I did so a Google search for "GRUB No Such Partition" on my Blackberry while it was down, but still basically have no idea what this is.

So, basically, in order that I can figure this out and prevent a recurrence--what in the heck just happened?

LRH

Why would Windows 7 be using GRUB? Hmmmmm? Sounds fishy to me. I can only think of two reasons:

1.) It was dual booting a Linux / Windows installation.
2.) Windows 7 was an illegitimate copy and activated with a grub boot loader / activator.

Hmmmmm!

pcgeek11