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Removing Grub Bootloader?

Posted on January 7, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

Ok, so we have a Dell Optiplex running Ubuntu and Windows on two Hard Drives (XP on one, Linux on the Other) Well, it was working beautifully, well, me and my friend decided that we were gonna try to make our own linux using Linux From Scratch, well, that wiped the Hard Drive (the Linux one) so we gave up after having difficulties, well, now when we try to boot into windows, we get the Grub screen, and it says “GRUB Loading stage1.5.
“GRUB loading, please wait…..
Error 15
then nothing happens, we don’t have a Ubuntu live CD anymore, and i think i can get a windows recovery CD, we also have a USB stick running Slax Linux that we could use, how do we fix this problem?
I actually found a windows 98 recovery cd lying around and got it fixed using the fixmbr command, thanks though

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How to remove viruses from an inoperable OS (XP)?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I’ve never run into this problem, but my sister supposedly has a virus on her XP box, and I’m really not sure how to help her. The bootloader works fine, but upon selecting a user, does not display any icons or any sort of interface. Pressing the power button seems to call up the ‘shut down’ display on xp.

What virus, if any, might this be? What are some possible solutions that don’t involve me manually backing up and reinstalling everything? (I can run a live linux cd and mount the HD)
NOTE: there is NO anti-virus installed on this machine.

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Can I install the grub bootloader onto my laptop from ubuntu live cd without an installation of linux?

Posted on July 12, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

Can I install the GRUB Bootloader from an Ubuntu Linux Live CD without already having Linux installed or having to install Linux?

If not, is there a way to install just the Windows Bootloader from a disk or another bootloader from a disk to my laptop?

(Its because i deleted my ubuntu install which had GRUB and now when i turn it on it just comes up with “Error 17″ in grub)

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bootloader? dual booting linux?

Posted on July 9, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

right…
i use linux and had ubuntu install and i needed windows for stuff so i got windows 7 and partitoned my harddrive. all went fine then installed windows 7 fine as well…then booted up using a live ubuntu cd to put the GRUB boot loader on as windows does’nt see my linux partition anyway so i booted up into the live cd and opened terminal

typed sudo grub
root (hd0,0)
then
setup (hd0,0)
and it saw that i had grub on my linux partiotion but it didnt enable it.
and when i rebooted it booted in windows useing windows boot manager :(

how can i now make it so i can boot back into my linux partition like i want to?

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GRUB bootloader?

Posted on June 8, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

i at one point had XP and Linux mint in dual boot, but i got a virus on widows and had to reinstall, now my bootloader is gone and i can only boot into XP, how do i get that back, do i use the linux live cd to re-install it, and will it mess my windows or anything up?

-Your friendly linux noob.

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