Comments on: How to restore Grub 2 after reinstalling Windows XP/Vista/Win7

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:01:41 +0000

Hi Method 2 worked for me, no problems, many thanks. Phil

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By: DavisEngy

DavisEngy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:37:51 +0000

Used both the XP and Win7 methods on separate installs of Ubuntu 9.10.

XP method was flawless, except I ended up editing the boot.ini file so only 1 option (Win XP) was available so during boot it would pause to ask if I wanted WinXP or Grub4Dos. I also had to use “sudo update-grub” from ubuntu to get WinXP to boot in correctly.

On the Win7 box I had to “sudo update-grub” and delete “grldr” “grldr.mbr” “boot.ini” & “menu.lst”. After that everything was flawless.

Also initially had a problem with creating the file “C:\.Create” from windows. Eventually found that one out.

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By: Rushy

Rushy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:50:27 +0000

Thanks heaps, I used method 2) live CD and it worked fine after I found the password for root. Live CD kept asking for a password, sudo -i was not working. su works fine.

By: ganapati

ganapati — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:31:24 +0000

thanks dude…. the info given by you really helped me a lot…. i was struggling a lot to restore the grub,and this site came handy for me . thanks once again

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:30:32 +0000

DUDE U ARE THE MAN!!! method 2 worked for me!

my situation was like this: i first installed xp and then ubuntu 9.10

so sda1 -> xp
and sda2 -> ubuntu

grub2 bootloader was handling everything and it was working fine until last night when i logged into my xp partition and modified boot.ini to remove the recovery console option(i couldnt stand it! ). on my next reboot, grub2 bootloader was gone and my pc was only booting to xp on without any other options in between. so i tried your method (2) just the first part and it worked like a charm! grub2 bootloader is back!!! million thanks brov!

this is what i used after booting with the live cd:

sudo -i
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt –> my ubuntu partition
grub-install –root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:44:26 +0000

I went from Windows XP to Windows 7 in a dual bot situation with Ubuntu 9.10. After that, the grub boot menu was gone and my Asus 1000H netbook botred directly to Windows.
Number three worked for me as an easy solution. I tried number two first, but without luck. Thanks for this great article!

By: Ghost-1-0-1

Ghost-1-0-1 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:47:49 +0000

ur mad genius lol….it took me like 10 attempts of all other methods and this method of yourz so simple and worked straight away wow….thank u

By: Truin

Truin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:04:50 +0000

If you use 1st method (grub4dos) after getting back to your Ubuntu distro and reinstalling grub you need to remove “grldr” “grldr.mbr” “boot.ini” & “menu.lst” from your Windows “C:\” partition. If you don’t remove them, trying to boot into Windows will just throw you back into GRUB.

Thanks a lot for guide.
Could you use space after punctuation or use quotes for every file and path (guessing that blog automatically removes spaces) because for example “C:\.Create” fooled me to think that Win7 uses same method to hide files and folders as Linux does -> tried to find “.Create” from “C:\”