Grub problems

[Lisa Kachold]

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 <nadimhoque at gmail.com> 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 <mhoy06 at gmail.com> 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?
> >
>
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