super grub should work on a bootable usb too:
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-step-put-super-grub2-disk-into-an-usb-pendrive/
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Michael <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> no cd drive.... this would be SOOOO much easier if it did!
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Todd Millecam <tyggna@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> get a super grub cd and have it repair and reinstall grub.
>>
>> Grub has two parts, it's bootsector/EFI area and it's configs. The
>> configs exist on a regular drive partition and handle all the multi-boot
>> stuff. The bootsector / EFI stuff really only knows how to point to
>> drives.
>> You could probably type in something along the lines of:
>> root (hd0)
>> chainloader +1
>> boot
>>
>> and have it get you into windows, because that's all you're missing is
>> the conf file telling grub that's a valid boot directive.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> what it does is opens a "minimal BASH-like line editing" thing with:
>>> grub>
>>> being the first line when I don't have the external drive plugged in. I
>>> typed in 'ls' and the response (when the thumb drive is inserted) was:
>>> (hd0) (hd0,msdos) (hd1) (hd1,gpt4) (hd1,gpt3) (hd1,gpt2) (hd1,gpt1)
>>>
>>> without the thumb drive it is:
>>> (hd0) (hd1) (hd1,gpt4) (hd1,gpt3) (hd1,gpt2) (hd1,gpt1) error:
>>> failure\
>>> reading sector 0x3aefff0 from `hd0'
>>> error: failure reading sector 0x3aeff80 from `hd0'
>>> error: failure reading sector 0x0 from `hd0'
>>>
>>> So how can I install grub where it belongs in hd0?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Todd Millecam <tyggna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Check your bios boot order and ensure the proper hard drive is set
>>>> first. It's the same as hitting f12 and selecting one, only in your bios
>>>> settings you can set the default.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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