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petex
September 12th, 2009, 12:36 PM
HI i just checked my drive with easeus PRO and now i have
grub error 17

the only OS that is working is asus Express gate, but it's more of browser than OS

I do not have any way to use liveCD and only thing i have with me is pendrive but i need to get back to my OSes
is there any way to copy files to pendrive so that i can use it as liveUSB drive??
Asus express gate does not even have comand line so the only thing i can do is save a file (image to my pendrive)

markbuntu
September 12th, 2009, 01:27 PM
You can use unetbootin to put the live image on a pen drive so it will boot. How you would do that without a working machine I do not know.

petex
September 12th, 2009, 01:32 PM
that's my point, there are tons of liveUSB distros and installers but without OS you cannot install any of them i would need some kind of image that only needs copying to pendrive without any additional preparation and formating