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

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Yeah, I never dual/multi boot any OS. Just too many ways it can go pear shaped.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Maag <eric.maag at gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:15:24 
To: <chuck.kv3g at gmail.com>
Cc: <ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [DC LoCo] Help, have I bricked my netbook? (@#^&!* GRUB)

Collected wisdom,

I was able to fix the problem. I was able to boot off a live disk and
able to edit the grub file that way. It's definitely a relief I didn't
need to chuck it out the window.

Thanks for everyone's advice. I will never use WUBI again.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Chuck Glenn <chuck.kv3g at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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