SCUEY
June 11th, 2009, 12:26 AM
Hello,
I have Windows XP installed on my internal drive. A while ago I installed Ubuntu on my external hard drive. Grub, I found out, was on my external drive, and I needed my external drive to be turned on in order to boot to either Ubuntu or Windows.
Recently my external hard drive broke. Now I cannot boot to either OS. I am working from the live CD. I looked through the forums and started following directions from this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 but I ran into a problem.
When I ran "find /boot/grub/stage1" it told me "Error 15: File not found." I assume this is because the location it is looking for is on my external drive.
So I'm wondering what the best and safest solution is to this problem. I just want to be cautious and not make the problem worse.
My goals are either to setup GRUB so that it's on my internal hard drive or to return to booting using my BIOS. Right now I just want to be able to boot to Windows so that I can back up my files (yes, I can mount my internal drive now, but I'd like to boot to it too.). Then I can later set up a dual boot system.
Thanks!
I have Windows XP installed on my internal drive. A while ago I installed Ubuntu on my external hard drive. Grub, I found out, was on my external drive, and I needed my external drive to be turned on in order to boot to either Ubuntu or Windows.
Recently my external hard drive broke. Now I cannot boot to either OS. I am working from the live CD. I looked through the forums and started following directions from this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 but I ran into a problem.
When I ran "find /boot/grub/stage1" it told me "Error 15: File not found." I assume this is because the location it is looking for is on my external drive.
So I'm wondering what the best and safest solution is to this problem. I just want to be cautious and not make the problem worse.
My goals are either to setup GRUB so that it's on my internal hard drive or to return to booting using my BIOS. Right now I just want to be able to boot to Windows so that I can back up my files (yes, I can mount my internal drive now, but I'd like to boot to it too.). Then I can later set up a dual boot system.
Thanks!