I am stuck at grub > and cant boot Vista anymore

[NicholasD]

Hello everyone,

I have tried to understand this article but I have no clue what Linus is about...

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...d-edition.html

I had Vista installed on my laptop and I wanted to format my laptop to go back to XP. I was backing up my files when I deleted without knowing what I was doing on my D: drive bootsec.bak.

When I rebooted, the only thing I had was grub>

Is there a quick way to delete everything and recover my DOS as I cant either boot any of my ISO CD where I have XP?


PS: If you were wondering, I had Vista Home coming with my laptop but I was so upset by the poor performance that I downloaded a really stable but RAM greedy Vista ultimate from the Web.

Now my only reality is grub>

;-(

Nicholas

[bobescalin2005]

I think i don`t understand...do you have linux install to? What distro did you have?

[NicholasD]

Sorry about my late answer I thought I was going to receive a notification email,

I will make as clear as I can. I had Vista Ultimate downloaded from the Web. Very nice version, I had no issue with it apart RAM consumption.

I started backing up and deleted some file on my D Drive. Vista being installed on my C drive. As far as I know I had never Linux installed except that shell that I have just discovered existed.

When I boot, I have a message that boot failed!

GRUB4DOS 0.4.3 2007-03-13 Memory 631/893M..

and then the usual sentence Minimal Bash Like are supported....

grub>

Would you have a list of command that for sure will help?

I have no Linux knowledge whatsoever and I have no ideas about distros. I would love to boot from a CD with grub or whichever ther way imaginable so that I can fully erase my HDD. Even if I have boot from a CD enabled in DOS I cant boot from my CD drive with grub prompt.

Thanks for time,

Nic

[NicholasD]

When I enter:

root (hd0,0) => Error 19 Cannot mount selected partition
root (hd0,1) => Error 19 Cannot mount selected partition
root (hd0,2) => Error 19 Cannot mount selected partition
root (hd0,3) => Error 19 Cannot mount selected partition

As far as I recall , I had 3 different Volumes on my Dynamic Disk C, D,E .


root (hd1,0) => Error 26 Selected disk does not exist

[devils casper]

Do you have LiveCD of any Linux distro? We need to check output of fdisk -l command.

Try this first :
Boot up from SuperGRUB CD, USB or Floppy and select Fix Windows Boot Loader. It will remove GRUB and Windows Installers will work fine after that.