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color:#1F497D'>Pablo Vernocchi</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <br> </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Microsoft Exchange MVP | MCSE +M +S<br> <a href="http://www.eseutil.net/">http://www.eseutil.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Abhischek Thottakara<br> <b>Sent:</b> lunes, 05 de enero de 2009 11:00 a.m.<br> <b>To:</b> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br> <b>Subject:</b> Unbootable Laptop after GRUB removal<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hi,<br> I have an unbootable laptop because I removed GRUB by formating my Ubuntu 64-Bit partition. I know that you need to restore the Vista MBR to get a bootable machine again but I do not have a recovery cd so I researched on the Internet and found a way using the UBUNTU- Live CD. I followed the instructions on this webpage <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=622828">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=622828</a> the exact commands were: <br> <br> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:inset 1.0pt;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt'><pre style='border:none;padding:0cm'>sudo apt-get install syslinux<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='border:none;padding:0cm'>sudo dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/<span style='color:red'>sda</span><o:p></o:p></pre></div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <br> and <br> <br> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:inset 1.0pt;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt'><pre style='border:none;padding:0cm'>sudo apt-get install mbr<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='border:none;padding:0cm'>sudo install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/<span style='color:red'>sda</span><o:p></o:p></pre></div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <br> Both commands did not work that's why I tried both, it said that they completed successfully but I could not boot Vista again. Now the Grub error was gone but the machine said MBR 123FA with a blinking cursor. At that time I did not know what that was and I got totally desperate because I thought I deleted my Vista partition. So I googled again and found a forum where someone had quite the same problem and she solved it using "SUPERGRUBDISK" <a href="http://www.supergrubdisk.org/">http://www.supergrubdisk.org/</a>. I downloaded the iso, burned it and started the cd, then I went to the windows section on the cd and selected the Option Restore Windows MBR, then there was a Menu where it said remove GRUB and restore Windows MBR it prompted me to select the OS which was installed before Linux and the only thing I could select was called "SYSLINUX" I have know idea what that is and in my despair I selected it hoping that it would restore Vista MBR. But now the laptop is even "more unbootable" because when I start the laptop it says: ""BOOTMGR is missing, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". " Again I researched on the Internet where I found many advices saying the only way is getting an recovery cd. So I called my friend who has a recovery cd for his laptop but which is only 32- Bit. I started the cd and went to "REPAIR COMPUTER" option. The first thing I noticed that there was no entry for previous Vista Installations to repair but as the "internet" said I opened Recovery Console or "Repair Command & Prompt" as it is called now and used all three commands which were: "bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /rebuildbcd". The first two completed successfully, but the third failed with the output something like this: "No Windows Version, and some numbers I can't quite remember". But it changed nothing my Laptop is still unbootable with the message "BOOTMGR is missing..."<br> <br> Please help me I am grateful for all the help I can get!<br> Thanks in advance<br> Abhischek<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Add maps and directions to your party <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/events.aspx" target="_new">Show them the way! </a><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>