Grub to get back winows 7 (pic)

[Morty007]

Scenario-Originally dual booting vista and ubuntu. I now installed windows 7 on top of vista, so now no grub. I've seen different grub instructions here, but not sure which one to go with.

What do I do to get back grub with options for windows 7 and ubuntu?


http://xs844.xs.to/xs844/09410/disk369.png (http://xs.to)

[bulldog]

Hi Morty007,
Try this if you have a live cd on hand:

This will restore grub if you already had grub installed but lost it to a windows install or some other occurence that erased/changed your MBR so that grub no longer appears at start up or it returns an error.


Boot into the live Ubuntu cd.

When you get to the desktop open a terminal and enter.
This will get you a grub> prompt

sudo grub
This will return a location which you have to use in the next command.

find /boot/grub/stage1
Enter the location given by the previous command in the next command.

root (hd?,?)
Next enter the command to install grub to the mbr

setup (hd0)
Exit the grub shell

quit
Now Grub will be installed to the mbr.

[Morty007]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply. Gonna try it now.:guitar:

[Morty007]

Bulldog-Worked like a charm. I noticed now that it says Windows vista (loader) instead of Windows 7, but that's ok. Thanks again.