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Alright if you look at my previous questions you can see just what went wrong and where.

Anyways here it is, after a day of working at my external 500 gig goflex that I could not even create a new partition table on with gparted, I have come to the realization that my MBR has been the equivalent of tossed off the worlds tallest building, shot out of a cannon and fed few through a tree mulcher.

I had used gparted a while back to fix a mbr problem and create a new partition table so I could use the drive once again.

Then I used gparted to create multiple partitions to allow me to install multiple OS's on the drive.

Then after seeing how some of the partitions had some out come out raw in windows, I decided to create a new partition table and start from scratch again, to get a message from gparted saying it cannot create a new partition table.

Now after a full day of scroll through the internet, attempting every command possible in chkdsk,the ubuntu terminal, gparted, fdisk, etc, I've come to the realization I somehow screwed the MBR and need to fix it before I can do anything.

So now I ask if anybody knows of a way to fix the MBR or of software to do so, I have found info on it before, earlier today, but I am just to damn tired to care to look anymore, I have been going at this for roughly 10 hours now and I am just to damn tired to care to look.

Thank you in advance, I think I'm going to nap now if I don't get a reply in next 10-15 minutes.

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I recommend to use Boot Repair (google for that) and then write Grub to MBR, so MBR should be fixed. – Michael Tanner Apr 29 '12 at 21:15
Michael, I don't know if you will take this as a compliment or a oh god help me, but if I ever have a problem, I'm turning to you lol. – William Apr 29 '12 at 21:39
Well I ran into some problems with boot repair, ill post some pics of what I got in few mins, I've had a busy past few weeks and haven't been able to get the time to start up boot repair till today. – William May 12 '12 at 16:58
Well here are the pics, hope they help. tinypic.com/r/34g92rn/6 tinypic.com/r/345j7l2/6 tinypic.com/r/xnhg12/6 tinypic.com/r/2l89q2x/6 tinypic.com/r/rswm87/6 tinypic.com/r/seojo3/6 As you can tell hopefully from these pictures, I run into some of the same errors as before, and boot repair doesn't even list the drive in the list of drives. – William May 12 '12 at 17:35
There can be a problem with interference between a Linux system and the tools it uses if Linux is "helpful" and mounts file systems on the drive. I've seen this when trying to reformat USB flash memory sticks. The trick is to unmount them first. – John S Gruber May 21 '12 at 0:54
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