Macbook Pro Boot Problems NEED HELP!

Hello I have a macbook pro that was dual booted with a verision of ubuntu called Jolicloud and Mac OS x yesterday when I deleted the Jolicloud partition from my harddrive the grub bootloaded took over and now will not let me access my mac files. upon scanning the disk with testdisk on parted magic I can see that the mac partition is still there I just do not now how to access it. I could really use some help because I don't want to lose all of my photography that is on my harddisk

That sounds like a distinct possibility.
Do you have a backup?
Allan

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