Guest nads Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Hi, I'm in some serious trouble! or will be with my IT dept if can't get help!I installed Ubunu 9.10 on a USB stick, but unfortunately it overwrote my HDD MBR with Grub. (The USB install doesn't work either.)My HDD had "Boot Magic" with Win98 & XP (both needed for work)I realise that "Boot Magic" may now not be there.I would be happy to get the standard XP MBR back, even if it means I loose the win98 partition. (can run DOS on USB)Problem is, I have no access to the XP recovery disk, as I am out the country. I also have no floppy drive.Resources I have; several USB keys, and blank CD/DVDs. I also have Simply Mephis, Puppy & Tiny core - all live CDs. Internet access also (via live Ubuntu) I could get use of a colleagues laptop to burn any CDs that may help.I am running Thinkpad T61Please, someone save my butt!ps.When booting, the Grub error is:GRUB loadingerror: no such diskgrub rescue>_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-2677-super...back-to-windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nads Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 I had no joy with that, but if anyone is interested this is what I did:Got external 3.5" floppy.Made XP boot disk from a colleague.Fdisk would not work with that version of dos Accessed hidden partition that had Win98 on.Ran program called xtgold.com,This was some sort of file explorer,Went to Boot Magic file, and found a file called RestrMBR, ran it from there (pushed 'x' I think to execute it.Restart computer, straight into XP flash screen.XP scandisk (or similar) utility took 30 mins sorting out files, than rebooted straight into XP.I have lost the ability to run Win98 partition, but I only need it occasionally so will put it on a USB key! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Glad you got it sorted and thanks for posting the solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Reinstall Boot Magic, and you should be able to use the boot manager again.Or you could use the Windows boot manager by tailoring the boot.ini file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshomaru Samma Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 You can reinstall XP's MBR through Ubuntuthere are plenty of online tutorials for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I think reading back that he has XP working ok, and he doesn't need to re-install the MBR ??????Just lost the ability to boot into the Windows 98 partition ?Or have I just lost the plot ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Lost the plot. I would be happy to get the standard XP MBR back, even if it means I loose the win98 partition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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