Comments on: Repair XP MBR with only an Ubuntu Live CD

By: Bhabani

Bhabani — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:38:12 +0000

thanx alot it saved me from formatting my system

By: Spring Pisith Thanasaethsakul

Spring Pisith Thanasaethsakul — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:57:00 +0000

Hi thank you very much for this article i follow all your instructions and everything seems to be fine but after i reboot my computer i still can not use my windows. it show that
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Windows failed to start.A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. to fix the problem:
1. insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. choose your language setting, and then click "next."
3. Click "Repair your computer."

if you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or manufacturer for assistance.

File: BootBCD
Status : 0xcooooo98
Info: The windows Boot Configuration Data file dose not contain valid os entry.
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before i got this problem i just delete Linux partition in windows 7 and another Partition (i cont remember which one because i click it unintentionally hope that it is not windows partition).before that i already use EasyBCD to set the mbr already.

sorry for my long psot i really need to use my com to finish my project

thank you very much

By: 1Earth

1Earth — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:48:02 +0000

Hi, I don't know exactly what's wrong - but I can imagine it won't be horribly hard to fix. Here's the Google Results for the error you're getting. Start there, the solution will be in there somewhere.

By: heriz

heriz — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:23:55 +0000

saya selalu menggunakan 2 os : windows xp dan ubuntu 11.04

tetapi windows

saya rusak dan harus di install ulang, saya melakukan instal ulang dan menyebabkan bootloader ubuntu saya tertimpa dan hilang.. kemudian saya menggunakan cd ubuntu untuk memperbaiki bootloader saya dan kemudian berhasil bootloader saya pun kembali seperti semula..

namun yg saya bingung saya tidak bisa boot untuk masuk ke windows xp?

tolong bantu saya agar bisa masuk boot untuk ke dua-duanya???

terimakasih

ini tampilan saat masuk ke w xp:

error: no suce device: DE6CCF186CCEEA7B.

error: device format “/devsda,msdos1″ invalid: must be (f|h) dN, with 0

<=N< 128.

error: no such disk.

Tekan tombol apapun untuk melanjutkan…

saya tekan tombol ga bisa2 masuk

mohon dibantu ya

By: vince

vince — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:39:04 +0000

many many thanks,

this worked a treat.

By: Vj

Vj — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:27:52 +0000

Awsome fix! Great work around if you don't have an XP recovery disc at hand.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:12:13 +0000

I'm a foolish newbie and fouled up my Win MBR on my work laptop while goofing around with Ubuntu. Thanks a million for this… you saved me!

By: 1Earth

1Earth — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:12:48 +0000

I'm glad it worked for you guys too. @Enrique - OK, this is not the solution, but using this thread (especially CalJohnSmith's 12 Aug 2008 reply), it will give you enough info to search for the Windows solution to your problem. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=887895

By: Sonsum

Sonsum — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:50:37 +0000

This worked amazing! Thank you!

By: njetpopcorn

njetpopcorn — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:11:07 +0000

Yeah, I agree finally! Been trying to use the ms-sys package, until I realized it didn't exist anymore

This made my day

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:41:23 +0000

Hi, hey man, great work… I had this issue and I had found many solutions that required installing ms-sys, but a couldn't got it to install with ubuntu 10.10 live, but this lilo thing worked great.

Just one thing, you see, when I turn on my pc, at some point it displays "no active partition" or something like that, obviusly is because lilo is trying to boot or is looking for some partition to boot from, do you know how to remove that?, anyways that message didn't even last that long, so if you don't know, or requieres to much work, it doesn't really worth it :O

Thanks!

By: rodrigo

rodrigo — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:20:53 +0000

finally!