Sacred2 Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I have a samsung harddrive that had linux mint and windows on it. Sunday the dropped would not boot. kept giving me a Grub error. I made the mistake of resetting the mbr with windows using fixmbr and fix boot. Now I am having trying seeing anything on the drive. I have over 200 gigs of music I downloaded in addition to miscellaneous pics and other stuff Now I am having trouble even seeing the drive. The drive is not that old 3 years maybe can anyone offer any help or help with data recovery. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecboy Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Not sure of what version of windows you have, but, if its Win 7, then... GRUB works in stages. First part of it is loaded from MBR (Master Boot Record), which points to secondary data located on your Linux partition that is required to proceed with next step of grub. From your description of the problem, apparently you have deleted the second stage of your grub installation and grub isn't able to find it. In order to get back your Windows 7 boot loader on your MBR, to allow you to boot into Windows 7, follow these steps: 1- Boot your computer from your Windows 7 install dvd. 2- Choose your language, time, and keyboard input on the first screen, and click next. 3- On next screen, you will be presented with three choices. Click on "Repair Your Computer", to enter recovery window. Now select "Command Prompt". At the command prompt, first change your directory to boot (cd boot), and then type "bootsect /nt60 C:\". This will restore your windows boot loader onto your MBR. Now restart your computer, and you should be able to boot into your Windows 7 installation. More info might be needed such as what version of Linux / Windows, and what grub error did you have originally?? -Tecboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacred2 Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 ok it's Windows 7 home. It's an Acer laptop that did not come with an install cd. The Linux version was Mint 13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecboy Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Have you tried what I put in the 1st reply?? Have you tried the drive in another computer as a non boot drive to see if you can read it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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