Grub Error 17 Dell Inspiron 1525

**nintendorulz55** · July 27th, 2008

I pushed the wrong button this morning when i was all groggy, and accidentally opened Dell Media Direct. I exited and when i tried to boot, i got error 17... i've tried everything on the forums. I'm very n00b-ish when it comes to partitions and such, so please go step by step to get me through this! I don't want to reinstall... mainly because I was playing Mother 1 on an NES emu and i got really far and i DONT want to do it all again.. but if there is a way to back that up and my music and documents and whatnot, i guess i would consider it.

**Vakman** · July 27th, 2008

Have you tried using a disk called Super GRUB? You can download it and burn it to a CD.
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
There is the site. Try it out, I used it to restore my Ubuntu a few times already as well as others.

**nintendorulz55** · July 28th, 2008

im going to try this.. i'll report back later.

**stevoo** · July 28th, 2008

Or post us the below

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
sudo fdisk -l

and give us results

**nintendorulz55** · July 28th, 2008

nope. SGD did not work. here's the output, stevoo.
the first one... nothing. menu.lst pops up, but theres nothing in it. i know thats a big problem.
second..
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x78000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 9403 9730 2620416 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 9546 9729 1477980 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9546 9729 1477948+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

**Vakman** · July 28th, 2008

All right. Try this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...tallingWindows and do as it says basically and then see what happens

**panther_sn** · July 28th, 2008

I did exactly the same thing with my wifes inspiron, the quick easy solution to this (dont ask me why it works it just does), do the same thing press the dell media button, have it start loading then hard power the machine off and restart and all shoud be fine. Hope that works for you as well as it does for me
Stuart

**nintendorulz55** · July 29th, 2008

Originally Posted by panther_sn

I did exactly the same thing with my wifes inspiron, the quick easy solution to this (dont ask me why it works it just does), do the same thing press the dell media button, have it start loading then hard power the machine off and restart and all shoud be fine. Hope that works for you as well as it does for me
Stuart

Oh my God!!! that worked! to think it could be that simple! thank you 20 times over!