I installed Ubuntu on my Toshiba R15 Tablet, decided I wanted my HD space back. Deleted the Ubuntu partition. On restart I got the infamous GRUB LOADER 1.7 error.
I then used kill disk to zero out the HD. Upon start up with no OS I just got one word: GRUB. (my favorite word now)
I couldn't boot into the Bios because it loaded the error before I could do anything then if I did manage to get F2 hit it would just hang.
I took apart the laptop unplugged my CMOS and restarted (knowing it would boot right to Bios to have time set) Fixed it to look for my CD/DVD drive if it didn't find the OS.
It finally let me boot to a disk.
I put in my XP sp3 disk.... installed windows and got:
INTEL BOOT Agent v 4.1.16 blah blah copyright yada yada
PXE-E61: Media Test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent
Insert system disk in drive.
Press any key when ready.
Again I can't get into the BIOS.
If I boot from my XP disk or Ultimate Boot CD [UBCD] I can boot out into XP fine but on restart I get the same error.
If I try to re-install windows it wants floppies for recovery console and gives me no option to repair the existing XP install only to format and reinstall.
Taking me in circles.
I was originally trying to perform either FDISK/MBR or FIXMBR but I can't get into a place to do this.
My question is:
Using UBCD how can I do this? Or if you know another way, how can I fix my loading problem?
I am sure I'm missing something here but my brain is fried at this point?
Oh and to make it even more interesting I have to take the Ubuntu loader off my new desktop running Vista so if anyone knows how i can avoid this whole mess before hand I'd appreciate it.
--Amy--
I then used kill disk to zero out the HD. Upon start up with no OS I just got one word: GRUB. (my favorite word now)
I couldn't boot into the Bios because it loaded the error before I could do anything then if I did manage to get F2 hit it would just hang.
I took apart the laptop unplugged my CMOS and restarted (knowing it would boot right to Bios to have time set) Fixed it to look for my CD/DVD drive if it didn't find the OS.
It finally let me boot to a disk.
I put in my XP sp3 disk.... installed windows and got:
INTEL BOOT Agent v 4.1.16 blah blah copyright yada yada
PXE-E61: Media Test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent
Insert system disk in drive.
Press any key when ready.
Again I can't get into the BIOS.
If I boot from my XP disk or Ultimate Boot CD [UBCD] I can boot out into XP fine but on restart I get the same error.
If I try to re-install windows it wants floppies for recovery console and gives me no option to repair the existing XP install only to format and reinstall.
Taking me in circles.
I was originally trying to perform either FDISK/MBR or FIXMBR but I can't get into a place to do this.
My question is:
Using UBCD how can I do this? Or if you know another way, how can I fix my loading problem?
I am sure I'm missing something here but my brain is fried at this point?
Oh and to make it even more interesting I have to take the Ubuntu loader off my new desktop running Vista so if anyone knows how i can avoid this whole mess before hand I'd appreciate it.
--Amy--