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Grub rescue: how can I find where my Ubuntu installed?

I was getting this particular error while booting up: I was trying this solution provided here, but I don't know where does Ubuntu reside in the disk.
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"Error: Unknown filesystem" on all my drives on Grub rescue [duplicate]

I was trying to start my computer in Windows safe mode and ended up pressing F8 before selecting Windows in grub instead of after and now it's stuck in grub rescue. I looked up how to use it to make ...
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Help with grub comand screen now gone off

I had just put the command in my grub to set root and the power went out whilst it was doing something and my monitor now says gnu grub 0.97. What can I do to fix this?
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Grub rescue unknown filesystem...the ultimate hopelessness

I know the question has been asked so many times but in my case whatever I do as indicated in the following post (all solutions are tried) 'unknown filesystem' is the ultimate reply.. Grub rescue - ...
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Fix Grub Boot Loader after partition [duplicate]

I have a system with dual boot for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. The system uses Grub as its boot loader. But, today by mistake, i shrank the Windows Volume and created a new Volume and all worked fine, ...
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I can't access the system: Error: "unknown filesystem. grub rescue" [duplicate]

i'm a fresh ubuntu user and I've installed a double boot with Wind 8 and Ubuntu 13.04, but since yesterday I'm receiving an error showing: error: unknown filesystem grub rescue> The fact is when ...
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Error Unknown FileSystem: Grub Rescue? [duplicate]

I had a dual boot system for Windows 7 and Linux 10.10 . I am new to linux and hadnt upgraded it before ir reached its end-of-life. So I decided to delete the partition in which linux was installed ...
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error: unknown filesystem / grub rescue>

My hard drive blew out a couple of months back. I bought a new one today and I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 and put it on a USB. I tried to boot from my flash-drive because it always works. The grub menu ...
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Stuck With grub rescue> console [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Grub rescue - error: unknown filesystem Here is the background of my issue: I just recently installed the latest version of Ubuntu along side with Windows 8 Enterprise. ...
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"Unknown filesystem" error and grub rescue prompt on boot [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Grub rescue - error: unknown filesystem I installed Ubuntu 11.10 alongside Windows 7. When I restarted my pc it showed unknown file system and grub> . I googled it and found ...
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How to solve this GRUB error?

I used Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 in a dual boot setup. Now I am uninstalling Ubuntu because of some errors. After I have deleted the Ubuntu OS volumes, I restarted my system. But after restarting, ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 stuck in grub rescue

Different from other topics I have found. I have an ubuntu VM, mounted what I thought was a USB (as they are normally sda1) and without checking copied a file onto it. Well this stupid VM has its file ...
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Computer booting into "grub rescue" [duplicate]

I tried writing a .img file to an existing partition (the partition that my computer boots into). When I rebooted my computer it booted to "GRUB Rescue" and said "Unknown filesystem&...
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Unknown filesystem, grub rescue [duplicate]

When I try to boot I get this message: error: unknown filesystem. Entering rescue mode... grub rescue> results of: grub rescue> ls Is as follows: (hd0) (hd0,msdos1)
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Grub loading unknown file system grub rescue [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Grub rescue - error: unknown filesystem I am new to Linux. I had Windows 7 installed in my laptop. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 9.0 from a free CD I got. I choose the option "...
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