Hi, well, it seems that my HDD is wrong somehow. I've linux installed (Ubuntu 10.10) and one morning the machine won't boot up. It said something about wrong UUID so I tried to manually change the /boot/grub/menu.lst file but I wasn't able to find it so I went for a Windows installation and I backed up all of my relevant data in that ntfs partition so I could later transport the files to another netbook. Next morning Windows won't boot up, and so I'm not able to copy the data.
Right now I'm trying to recover the data with TestDisk but I wanted to know if anybody here knows exactly what is going on, on my netbook.

Thanks.

Are you atleast getting grub prompt?
Ubuntu live-cd.
http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-restor...ws-xpvistawin7

Yes, I can get to grub. Whenever I tried to run a LiveCD it wouldn't work, was stucked at the splash screen.

If you're comfortable using command line download ubuntu10.10live-cd server edition it doesn't load graphical environment, run commands from above post get out reboot.

But I don't think it's a software or Linux problem, it looks like my hard drive is corrupted or something. I just wanted to know if anyone here would be able to tell me if this is a physic problem on my HDD or something else.

When you update-grub it should get correct uuid & get ubuntu running again.
There are also ways to get uuid.
Also if you're not getting {DRDY} errors hdd may be ok, but get it running & run other tests to see if drive is ok.

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I ran fsck from a live cd, then updated grub (update-grub) and everything worked just fine. I guess there still were errors in the partition table, even after creating a new one. Thanks by the way.

You're welcome.
Glad to know problem solved.