guidoz
May 17th, 2012, 09:46 PM
Hi everybody and greetings from Italy.
I have a small problem after messing around with my MBR. I want to say I'm not a beginner with PCs and I tried for a couple of days to find a solution on google, but I'm not much of an expert about the MBR.. so I'm afraid need your help.
I'll try to explain shortly:
1 - I had only Win XP on my main PC till a year ago or so. Then I added Win 7 64bit in dual boot, but never deleted XP till a few days ago, when I deleted XP and installed Ubuntu 12.04 with the intention of having Ubuntu and 7 in dual boot.
2 - Unfortunately, deleting XP partition I probably also deleted the MBR.. I had imagined this in advance but I had thought I could easily fix it after installing Ubuntu.
3 - After installing Ubuntu I tried to configure grub (found the right location of win 7 partition - /dev/sda7 -, found out how to add it on grub and so on ), but it doesn't work. As I said I'm not an expert about MBR... so I guess, but I don't know for sure, that grub needs to find the original windows loader to launch windows... is this right?
So, final questions:
is there any way to fix this problem not having a windows recovery disk nor fast internet access at the moment (I'm currently using 3g connection, but I do have a monthly limit.. so can't downloading anything big for the moment)? I mean, it is possible to fix the MBR only using linux, or I'm right when i think I'd need to install the windows' bootloader first? If it is not possible to fix it just with what I have, what will I need to download as soon as I have a better internet access?
I hope my questions are clear.. I didn't want to make it too long, but if you need more details you can ask of course ^_^
Thanks,
Guido
I have a small problem after messing around with my MBR. I want to say I'm not a beginner with PCs and I tried for a couple of days to find a solution on google, but I'm not much of an expert about the MBR.. so I'm afraid need your help.
I'll try to explain shortly:
1 - I had only Win XP on my main PC till a year ago or so. Then I added Win 7 64bit in dual boot, but never deleted XP till a few days ago, when I deleted XP and installed Ubuntu 12.04 with the intention of having Ubuntu and 7 in dual boot.
2 - Unfortunately, deleting XP partition I probably also deleted the MBR.. I had imagined this in advance but I had thought I could easily fix it after installing Ubuntu.
3 - After installing Ubuntu I tried to configure grub (found the right location of win 7 partition - /dev/sda7 -, found out how to add it on grub and so on ), but it doesn't work. As I said I'm not an expert about MBR... so I guess, but I don't know for sure, that grub needs to find the original windows loader to launch windows... is this right?
So, final questions:
is there any way to fix this problem not having a windows recovery disk nor fast internet access at the moment (I'm currently using 3g connection, but I do have a monthly limit.. so can't downloading anything big for the moment)? I mean, it is possible to fix the MBR only using linux, or I'm right when i think I'd need to install the windows' bootloader first? If it is not possible to fix it just with what I have, what will I need to download as soon as I have a better internet access?
I hope my questions are clear.. I didn't want to make it too long, but if you need more details you can ask of course ^_^
Thanks,
Guido