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So I reformatted my HD that had Ubuntu on it. After shutting down the computer I rebooted this morning to a Grub 17 error. I tried unplugging the HD and ...
  1. 03-18-2009 #1
    Katashi
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    Grub Error 17 after reformat

    So I reformatted my HD that had Ubuntu on it. After shutting down the computer I rebooted this morning to a Grub 17 error. I tried unplugging the HD and I get a Grub 20 error. I have also tried other advice on booting from the windows xp cd and repairing the mbr. But that didn't work either. Any assistance is welcome. Thanks
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    This isn't really a fix - no doubt some person more knowledgeable than I will help you with that. but its never a bad idea to download and burn to a CD supergrubdisk. Putting it into the CD drive, point your bios to boot off the CD, and you will have a heavily modified grub to work with and boot into any bootable partition in your system. As I said, its not a fix, but it will work in the short term, and I like to keep a copy as one never knows.

    Good luck with finding a proper solution.
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    I'll have to try that, unfortunately my cd burner is on the computer that's not working properly lol. I'll have to find a friend to do it. But I want my computer free of the OS. As far as I know there's no "uninstall" of an OS. I figured the reformat would be just fine. I'm hoping someone knows a way to fix the MBR other than the XP disk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katashi View Post
    I'll have to try that, unfortunately my cd burner is on the computer that's not working properly lol. I'll have to find a friend to do it. But I want my computer free of the OS. As far as I know there's no "uninstall" of an OS. I figured the reformat would be just fine. I'm hoping someone knows a way to fix the MBR other than the XP disk.
    The Supergrubdisk will fix the mbr, just choose MBR+WIN and all should work well.

    The "Proper" eay to fix this is to boot into the Windows XP disk (Or Win2K) press R for repair when asked and type "fixmbr" then "fixboot".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katashi View Post
    I have also tried other advice on booting from the windows xp cd and repairing the mbr. But that didn't work either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katashi View Post
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    You didn't state which commands you used.

    I suppose there is still SuperGrub CD.

    Hope you get it working.
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    You should be able to fix the boot using the Supergrub CD, incase that does not work then boot from a live CD and post the output of
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    sudo fdisk -l
    It is quite common from the Windows CD not to boot correctly and allow a fix of Windows boot while grub code is on the MBR.
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