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I mistakenly ran dd on sda which is the current hard-drive Ubuntu installed on. I aborted dd (using ctrl-x) and when rebooted the machine it no longer boots with Ubuntu :(

I have nothing important on the machine, so I don't care to lose everything on it.

Trying to install Ubuntu from Disk-On-Key didn't work (error: umount: /dev device busy) Tried to use repair-boot from Disk-On-Key and still didn't work (says everything finished successfully, but after rebooting I get the same errors)

My question is: do you have any idea how I can have Ubuntu installed on the machine (again, don't care to lose everything on it)?

Hani Ayoub
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I would install Ubuntu with the USB disk, then choose the "something else" option, delete the partition table and create two new partitions: one for the system (mount point /) and a swap partition (2-4 Gb).

Should do the trick.

EDIT

If this doesn't work, using a live DVD/USB, boot and choose the "Try Ubuntu" option, then open gparted and from the device menu choose Create Partition table. Then try the install option again.

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