Re: [tlug] can anyone help ..I need to repair my grub ...

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 03/18/10 14:14, Lewske Wada wrote:
> On 03/18/10 11:38, Deepika Ghuriani wrote:
>>> I have a dual boot on my system Windows (Vista + 7 ) preinstalled +
>>> Last day when I tried starting Windows it gave some error and started
>>> system recovery after which i couldnt follow much as the instructions
>>> were in japanese.
> 
> If you can't read Japanese, why don't you use English version?

If its a Japanese laptop, the device drivers are probably not supported
for the English version.

> Edward Middleton wrote:
>> The windows 7 recovery process has overwritten your Master Boot Record
>> MBR[1].
>>
>> What you need to do is.
> 
> "fdisk /mbr" from DOS boot drive did fix the Windows MBR in 95
> but today I'm not sure.

The problem is that Windows has replaced grub with the windows
bootloader which doesn't recognize/support Linux.

Edward