Re: [PLUG] repair MBR

[Christopher Ochsenreither <c.g.ochsenreither@gmail.com>]

Everybody I work with hates this IT company. It's kind of the bane of our organization's existence. They actually create problems with our network and servers so that they can charge us to fix them. Unfortunately, we're locked into a service contract with them for some time. I'll try fixing the problem with a grub disc. If that fails I'll check to see if we have any Windows 7 discs. If that fails I'll borrow a Win7 disc from you. My wife and I haven't used Windows at home since ever.

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Drew Lehman <dlehman@digitatech.com> wrote:

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

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