Re: [PLUG] repair MBR

[Drew Lehman <dlehman@digitatech.com>]

Chris,
  First your IT company should not have your CDs, they are yours and they should leave them with you.  That would be a red flag.  Second, if you need a Windows 7 image, let me know.  I can get you an ISO.  You won't be able to install Windows with it since you won't have a valid license key, but it works for repairs such as this.


On 7/12/2013 5:15 PM, Christopher Ochsenreither wrote:

Thanks Will.

I believe our outsourced IT company is hoarding all our Windows discs. I found this advice on askubuntu.com:

"If you have a usb thumb drive, you can use penndrivelinux from windows to make it bootable with an applicable distribution. From there you can fix it using boot-repair."

And they provided some links.

If anyone knows of a tried and true software application, let me know.

Thanks,
Chris

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Will <staticphantom@gmail.com> wrote:

I would drop in a windows disk and run "Fix MBR". When I first tried dual booting with Suse 11 it worked like a charm to fix my screw up.

-Will C

On Jul 12, 2013 4:53 PM, "Christopher Ochsenreither" <c.g.ochsenreither@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed on a single hard drive. I removed the Ubuntu partitions and grub2 partition and moved the Windows recovery partition forward followed by the Windows 7 partition. I then deleted the partitions, which were named sda2 and sda3 and created partitions sda1 and sda2 over the same blocks of the hard drive. Now when I boot the computer it gives a prompt GRUB Rescue > or something like that (I'm not at work right now).

Should I just move the partitions back and re-install grub2 or should I use another MBR repair disc? Our outsourced IT company wants to charge us $210 on top of their service visit fee to re-install windows.

I'm 99.9% sure that the NTFS Windows 7 partitions are fine.

Thanks,
Chris

___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group         --        http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group         --        http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group         --        http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group         --        http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug