ubuntster
February 15th, 2011, 12:46 AM
Hello!
Basically i have read every topiv in internet about grub rescue and no answers for my problem, so hope someone can help:smile:
So i start with the story...
I have in my home very old PC and i installed Ubuntu on it. This computer was used by my mom and brother and they didn't like it so they asked me to install back windows xp home. I DO NOT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH DOUBLE BOOT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. There was ONLY ubuntu and i wanted to format the hard drive and then install XP. When i insrted original XP CD, i was not able to boot, i checked boot sequences and everything possible and nothing. Then i decided to remove the hard drive and but it into a console which would make it an externial drive. I connected it to my LAP TOP(win 7) and formatted it in lap top and afterwards it showed that the disk is empty and its in NTFS format. I was hooping that if i know connect it im able to boot the XP cd up and install it but...... When i re-connected the hard drive to PC and powered it ON i got a message :
error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue>
I AM VERY VERY VERY STUPID IN LINUX STUFF so only thing i came up was to try boot cd-s and so on.
i also read differenet grub rescue threads, but the help that was in there was requireing LIVE CD-S or some typing in it and either way i was stuck
And now after a week of research im in point where i cant boot no live cd-s, win xp cd, usb sticks... ANYTHING!
hope this information is enought to get this topic going and im very happy to get any reply and im willing to answer any questions
Thank You!
Taavi M.
Basically i have read every topiv in internet about grub rescue and no answers for my problem, so hope someone can help:smile:
So i start with the story...
I have in my home very old PC and i installed Ubuntu on it. This computer was used by my mom and brother and they didn't like it so they asked me to install back windows xp home. I DO NOT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH DOUBLE BOOT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. There was ONLY ubuntu and i wanted to format the hard drive and then install XP. When i insrted original XP CD, i was not able to boot, i checked boot sequences and everything possible and nothing. Then i decided to remove the hard drive and but it into a console which would make it an externial drive. I connected it to my LAP TOP(win 7) and formatted it in lap top and afterwards it showed that the disk is empty and its in NTFS format. I was hooping that if i know connect it im able to boot the XP cd up and install it but...... When i re-connected the hard drive to PC and powered it ON i got a message :
error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue>
I AM VERY VERY VERY STUPID IN LINUX STUFF so only thing i came up was to try boot cd-s and so on.
i also read differenet grub rescue threads, but the help that was in there was requireing LIVE CD-S or some typing in it and either way i was stuck
And now after a week of research im in point where i cant boot no live cd-s, win xp cd, usb sticks... ANYTHING!
hope this information is enought to get this topic going and im very happy to get any reply and im willing to answer any questions
Thank You!
Taavi M.