H,
First of all, I'd suggest looking at the grub problem, before doing anything else. What does it do? does it show an error? If yes, which one?
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Is it possible to reinstall kubuntu, without touching what is on the machine?
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Without touching what is on the machine, no. Without touching your /home yes, but its easily done only if its on a separate partition, otherwise you can't reinstall from scratch (format root partition).
In any case, before reinstalling kubuntu, try reinstalling only GRUB (I believe there's a utility on the disk to do that)
Good luck