Hey guys, I have an Asus Eee PC netbook that I had dual-booting Windows 7 Starter and Ubuntu. I'm going to serve a mission for the next two years, and my family will be using it while I'm gone. For ease-of-use sake, they want it in near-original condition, without anything linux-related in the way of the familiar Windows-only setup. I figured that it couldn't be hard to remove Ubuntu and revert the partitions and Windows to their original states, but I was... wrong.
I booted into the computer's recovery partition (I was careful to leave it intact when I installed Ubuntu) and clicked the only button, "Recover," but it did not magically reformat my HD, as I had hoped. In fact, I'm not sure if it did anything at all. Afterwards, in a moment of... inexperience... I deleted my Linux and swap partitions, forgetting that grub's files were in /boot. So when I rebooted, I got what would have been the grub rescue console, but it was unusable. Now I need to install a new bootloader that will load Windows 7.. Without a proper recovery CD, I can't reinstall the microsoft bootloader. I have some old Windows XP install discs, if those will work, but no external cd drive to boot from. So I tried reinstalling grub. Back in my Ubuntu Live USB, I created a small ext2 partition, /dev/sda2, and tried installing grub to it with $ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda. /mnt is where I mounted the new partition and /dev/sda is my hard drive. I then manually created a grub.cfg file with an entry to chainload Windows (based on my other computer's Windows XP entry and some googling), but I get the message "BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart." So I guess my grub menu entry is wrong somehow. As a temporary solution, I am now trying to reinstall Ubuntu in dual-boot partitioning, which should automagically reinstall and configure grub with the correct menu entries. Is there a way that I can restore the computer to original configuration at this point? Or something similar? My Windows-only family will be using this, so I don't want them to have to manually select their OS at boot time. Is it possible to install grub on the Windows partition? Any thoughts will be appreciated. I'm still googling for leads, but if any of you have some expert advice, it would be helpful. Timothy Wood -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
