GRUB Problem

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fknrkstr

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Computer info-
ASROCK ATOM ION 330
Intel Atom Processor Oc'd 2.1 ghz
2 gigs ram
Windows 7 64 bit


I had Windows 7 running perfect, but decided i wanted to give Moblin a shot. I shrank the windows partition just shy of 5 gigs, renamed it, rebooted and installed. The install formatted the 5 gig partition and finished sucessfully. After the install, moblin booted as my primary os but froze at the logo screen... so i booted back in to windows 7 through the moblin start upscreen to look for possible solutions and after some digging decided that I dont have time to deal with tweeking.

Here comes the PROBLEM- I used disk manager in windows to delete the moblin partition, Then expanded the windows parition by the five gigs moblin was using. I shut off my computer and went to bed. Next morning....turn her on and it just says grub> blinking _
 
I did the same thing but with Ubuntu I looked forever before I figured out that Linux is a pain in the azz to uninstall. The best thing to do is to just reinstall Linux because that is just about the only way to fix it. Then Google for a little while and see if you can figure out how to uninstall Linux for good. I never did I still have it installed but it want boot so I basically have a dead OS on my hard drive that I can't do anything with. If you want the easy way out just reinstall windows.
 
I have no problem with that however there are two things i need off of the hard drive before a fresh install. I need back on windows 7 one more time.:mad:
 
For that you would have to reinstall some type of Linux and that is what I had to do. If you have another computer you could take the hard drive out and stick it in and get you're info off that away.
 
Basically there are three things you can do.

Get a small linux distro that runs from CD. Boot to that and extract the data you need. Once you have the data recovered you can erase the partition and start from scratch.

Try the method listed above

Try to get it to work with a repair installation.

Either way in the end you are going to have to erase the MBR and get windows to re-write it.
 
you can fixmbr or it sounds like you have lost the boot loader to load windows which can be fixed by using the grub bootloader which is a sperate program from the linux distros and can be found here
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-download.en.html

it will allow you to create a new bootloader and allow you to get back into to windows without having to install linux or another os and just keeping the original windows
 
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