Yes, you don't even need to boot to the disk, should just be able to run it. On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote: > To get windows to boot again I would reinstall the windows boot loader > on the windows disk (the version of windows that they are using) by > booting to recovery and run the bootrec.exe /fixmbr. This is how I did > it, but this is for vista xp and such is going to be different. This > should work until u decide (and hopefully go back) in linux. This > might be the only way to boot into windows because grub only works in > linux. > > Nadim Hoque > > On 5/9/09, Mike Hoy wrote: > > I'm working on a relative's computer. It was dual booting at one point. > > Windows and Ubuntu. Then one day he decided to delete the Linux partition > > from inside Windows (through disk management) and reformatted it. He did > so > > because he needed the hard drive space. It was fine until he rebooted the > > laptop. Now grub throws an error and we can't get into windows. > > > > Ultimately I'd like to get Ubuntu back on it, but for now we just need to > > boot into windows again and use the data on the other partition. > > > > Any suggestions for making grub work again? Or am I going about this the > > wrong way? > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- www.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 "Contradictions do not exist." A. Rand