On 13/12/10 18:16, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 13/12/10 18:00, C A Wills wrote:
Done a silly thing and deleted several partitions on an old PC of my
brother, now no boot sequence!
PC used to dual boot WP/Ubuntu but they have not used Linux and WP has
no elbow room so I removed the Linux partitions, expanded WP twice as
large and used the remainder for their user data. All went fine until
I rebooted; post OK then Error 22, I then realised why - I'd removed
Grub with the Linux partition.
Am looking back through past LXF mags as I remember something similar
asked about, no luck so far.
Hope to be at meeting tomorrow so will ask then, but any info would be
useful so I can send it on to my brother. Don't know what file to look
for in Windos for the boot programme.
Hi Clive,
Based on an understanding that Linux is no longer present or required,
and that you are trying to recover a Windows instance, you could try
booting with a DOS boot disc and running the command 'fdisk /mbr'.
Or, if it's Windows XP, you could do a 'repair install' to revive it.
cheers
Chris
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