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Grub Loader

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T3C

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I have a laptop which was dual booting Windows XP and SuSe. I deleted the Suse partitions and now the machine will not boot past grub>

Anyone run into this before or have any idea how to get it booting back to windows?


Thanks
-T3C
 
Originally posted by: T3C
I have a laptop which was dual booting Windows XP and SuSe. I deleted the Suse partitions and now the machine will not boot past grub>

Anyone run into this before or have any idea how to get it booting back to windows?


Thanks
-T3C
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Can't say I've run into exactly that .... however, you may be able to fix this by rebooting with your XP disk in your cdrom drive and using the recovery console to repair your boot record.

Once you're into the recovery console, type "fixboot"

If you need to access a different drive or partition than the one you're in, refer to this LINK.

Let me know if that fixes ya.

 
I would boot to the recovery console and use fixboot and fixmbr.

That should do it.

EDIT, Arggg, went to answer phone and was beaten to it 🙂
 
Originally posted by: DetroitSportsFan
Originally posted by: T3C
I have a laptop which was dual booting Windows XP and SuSe. I deleted the Suse partitions and now the machine will not boot past grub>

Anyone run into this before or have any idea how to get it booting back to windows?


Thanks
-T3C
Click to expand...

Can't say I've run into exactly that .... however, you may be able to fix this by rebooting with your XP disk in your cdrom drive and using the recovery console to repair your boot record.

Once you're into the recovery console, type "fixboot"

If you need to access a different drive or partition than the one you're in, refer to this LINK.

Let me know if that fixes ya.
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:thumbsup:

 
Grub has a "stage 1" in the MBR and a stage 2 in a regular partition (the SuSe one in your case) so that's why you are unable to finish booting. If you want to keep grub you will have to boot a liveCD and reconfigure it to use a stage 2 from windows. If you don't want grub you can use fixboot/fixmbr.
 
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