nads1978
November 14th, 2009, 05:42 PM
Hi, I'm in some serious trouble! or will be with my IT dept if can't get help!
I installed 9.10 on a USB stick, but unfortunately it overwrote my HDD MBR with Grub. (The USB install doesn't work either.)
My HDD had "Boot Magic" with Win98 & XP (both needed for work)
I realise that "Boot Magic" may now not be there.
I would be happy to get the standard XP MBR back, even if it means I loose the win98 partition. (can run DOS on USB)
Problem is, I have no access to the XP recovery disk, as I am out the country. I also have no floppy drive.
Resources I have; several USB keys, and blank CD/DVDs. I also have Simply Mephis, Puppy & Tiny core - all live CDs. Internet access also (via live Ubuntu) I could get use of a colleagues laptop to burn any CDs that may help.
I am running Thinkpad T61
Please, someone save my butt!
ps.
When booting, the Grub error is:
GRUB loading
error: no such disk
grub rescue>_
I installed 9.10 on a USB stick, but unfortunately it overwrote my HDD MBR with Grub. (The USB install doesn't work either.)
My HDD had "Boot Magic" with Win98 & XP (both needed for work)
I realise that "Boot Magic" may now not be there.
I would be happy to get the standard XP MBR back, even if it means I loose the win98 partition. (can run DOS on USB)
Problem is, I have no access to the XP recovery disk, as I am out the country. I also have no floppy drive.
Resources I have; several USB keys, and blank CD/DVDs. I also have Simply Mephis, Puppy & Tiny core - all live CDs. Internet access also (via live Ubuntu) I could get use of a colleagues laptop to burn any CDs that may help.
I am running Thinkpad T61
Please, someone save my butt!
ps.
When booting, the Grub error is:
GRUB loading
error: no such disk
grub rescue>_