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'. See this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013 If I recall correctly Windows install CDs include an option to repair the master boot record as well, should you happen to have such a thing. Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Next meeting: The Broadway, Bournemouth, Tuesday 2010-12-14 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
