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After clean install, computer won't boot; grub rescue prompt
Hello everyone,
I did some searching and saw this previously answered a bunch of times, but I haven't had any luck with the existing answers.
I built my own machine a few years ago, so it is not standard. Everything was booting just fine until I decided I wanted to do a fresh reinstall of Windows 7. After doing the installation, the computer restarted and before it would get to the windows boot screen, I now get stuck in grub rescue prompts. I tried Startup repair. I tried going into command prompt in repair computer and using the bootrec (fixmbr, fixboot, and the rebuildbcd) commands. Still no luck. At one time, a long time ago, I had linux dual booted. I don't recall if I ever had it on the same drive as Windows, but I know for sure at one point it was on a different drive.
Can someone tell me how to get past this? I can manually get by it if I boot to HDD and then select the drive, but if I let it go through the normal boot process without me interfering, I get stuck in the grub rescue.
I'm sure the experts will need more info provided, so please let me know what info you need.
Thanks!