[DC LoCo] Help, have I bricked my netbook? (@#^&!* GRUB)

[Chuck Glenn]

I think the boot issue might be a simple one.  Windows has the boot drive
and partition hard-coded in the boot.ini file of the boot drive. Edit your
boot.ini file and try changing the digits in this line:

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

I cannot tell you what values should go there--that would be based on your
disks, partitions, and where Windows is actually installed.

-- Chuck


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Eric Maag <eric.maag at gmail.com> wrote:

> Collected wisdom,
>
> Please help me you're my only hope! So I own a Acer Aspire One D250
> netbook, and I had Ubuntu installed onto my Windows partition via
> wubi, I was just testing it out and installing it on it's own
> partition was the next step. Before I had a chance to do that the
> Windows XP caught a nasty virus and went fubar. I was able to recover
> everything I needed under Linux and Windows, so I went ahead and chose
> the Windows Restore Option available from GRUB, it said it formatted
> the C: drive (where Windows and Ubuntu(wubi) resided and reinstalled
> Windows, when I rebooted it I received the following error message:
>
> error: no such partition.
> grub rescue>
>
> from looking around the web I was able to get:
>
> ls which yields:
> (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1)
>
> now from what I was able to gather I need to fix GRUB one suggestion
> is to use a repair disk, but when I try to enter BIOS to change the
> boot order, it's asking me for a password now (!!!) where the wasn't
> one before.
>
> Can anyone please help me out with some next steps, solutions for this
> please!
>
> Thanks,
> Eric M
>
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