<div dir="ltr">Hi All.<div><br></div><div>My sister bought a new Asus UL20A. I managed to convince her to give Ubuntu a try (it came with Windows 7 pre-installed), So i installed 10.04 on it.</div><div><br></div><div>It has a single 320 Gb HDD, I was very careful not to wipe the recovery partition, but I had to cut the original system partition (disk C:) into 2 partitions for Swap. so:</div>
<div><br></div><div>It had a Disk C: (I think about 80 Gb in size) and the rest as disk D: for data.</div><div><br></div><div>I chose to manually partition the drive during the installation and deleted the 80 Gb partition and created a 1024 MB for swap and the rest for / (root), the rest - i didn't touch.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After installation, the last option in the GRUB menu was Windows Vista (although it was actually Windows 7). I didn't give it much thought...</div><div><br></div><div>The deal was she tries Ubuntu for a week, then she decides if she wants to keep it or go back to Windows 7. Regrettably - she chose the latter.She has to go abroad for 3 months and she's affraid she will be stuck and no one will know how to help her. She said she had nothing against Linux but...</div>
<div><br></div><div>I tried to launch the recovery process by pressing F9 during boot - but nothing happened. I then tried to boot from that mysterious option on the menu - an what da ya know ! it's the recovery process! So it went about recovering - just as if I pressed F9 - and then told me the recovery was done and I should click OK to shut down.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And here is the part I need help with: The next time I pressed the power button - it says there is an error and gives me the "grub rescue>" prompt...</div><div><br></div><div>Please help me! There is no CD ROM drive, no recovery DVD media supplied (a note that came with the computer says one is not supplied with this model). </div>
<div><br></div><div>How do I boot from USB stick and recover the Windows 7 MBR / Boot loader?!</div><div><br></div><div>All I have is my on Ubuntu Lucid on both my Desktop and my Netbook...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div>
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