What I have been trying to get across is there is nothing to get to
on any of the sides, I tried two different loads, couldn't get to
anything.
I have since loaded Xubuntu 12.04 and I am using it and learning to
like it. I still have Mint 13 loaded on another partition but I am
about to give up on it, I think I will leave it for a while just in
case I need another boot device for some reason.

Thanks for the ideas, not sure what happened with the two different
loads of Ubuntu 12.04 but there was no way to move forward with it.