Restoring GRUB2 on a Vista/Precise dual-boot

**yttriuszzerbus** · May 6th, 2012

A few days ago, I installed Precise Pangolin with the installer CD, it chose 12GB of free space next to my Vista partition. Today, I decided to expand that partition and reduce the size of my windows partition. The result was that now, instead of the GrUB boot menu, I get:
error: no such partition.
grub rescue>

I have booted into a Precise live CD and tried the following:
sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1

as many threads on various forums instruct, but it says:
Error 15: file not found

Any ideas how I can fix this? I don't mind wiping the Ubuntu partition, but I don't have the Vista installation media, so I really need to keep that.

Thanks in advance,
yttriuszzerbus

**kc1di** · May 6th, 2012

Try Boot Repair found here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

**oldfred** · May 6th, 2012

+1 on Boot-Repair.

The instructions you found must be old. Ubuntu has used grub2 since 9.10 and finding stage1 is part of grub legacy (0.97).

**spideryada** · May 7th, 2012

I like the Boot Repair from Source Forge,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/files/

You can write the image to a cd or flash drive and boot to that.

Real easy to use. Just click on the recommended repair choice.

Advanced option is real powerful for more complex problems.

spider

**AlexOnVinyl** · May 7th, 2012

To be honest, your best bet would be to use the Windows Bootloader instead of GRUB2 because of how Windows reacts to it when you load from GRUB.

Here's an article on how to do just that using the program EasyBCD its a free program, all you need to do is put in some fake email address or use one from Mailinator.com and then your name and they give you the personal licensed version for free.

Here's how to set it up for dual booting: and will save you a lot of grief - EasyBCD Windows Bootloader for Dualbooting Ubuntu and Windows