Okay..... I can still boot into windows. I have to press f12 and load it
from that menu but it will load. Any way I can restore the laptop to the
way it was when I first got it and then I'll put 17.3 on. Any comments on
what I can do?

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> I messed up. I installed mint18 on my external drive but mint18 is not
> quite ready for prime time so I figured I would put mint 17.3 on. Well,
> durring installation I told it to put grub on the external drive. now I
> can't boot unless the external drive is plugged in. I need the port the
> external is plugged into because that is the only USB port it will boot
> from and I need that port  for the thumb drive. So  my question is how do I
> install grub to sda1......
>
> Mint won't boot now! How do I RESTORE WINDOWS SO i CAN DO THIS AGAIN?
>
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