[vox-tech] grub blunder

[Bob Mullan]

Thanks Charles. I got into the recovery console with this. It works well.
Now I'm not sure weather to use fixmbr or fixntldr. The windows boot disk
won't let me copy ntldr from its i386 directory for some reason. I had
wanted to try that first. Do you have any thoughts on this?
Bob

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From: vox-tech-bounces at lists.lugod.org
[mailto:vox-tech-bounces at lists.lugod.org] On Behalf Of Charles McLaughlin
Sent: February 26, 2006 3:21 PM
To: lugod's technical discussion forum
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] grub blunder

Bob Mullan wrote:
> I installed Debain i86 with Grub on C:\ for dual boot. (Windows XP pro, 
> NFTS hard drive). The Debain itself was installed on an external hard 
> drive connected via USB2. This was probably not the right thing to do 
> but no use crying over spilt milk.
> 
>  
> 
> When I tried to boot up I got…
> 
>  
> 
> “GRUB loading stage 1.5
> 
> GRUB loading, please wait…
> 
> Error 21”
> 
>  
> 
> I have tried;
> 
> Two Our Fathers and seven Hail Mary’s for penance, (no use);
> 
> Buying My wife chocolates, (its her PC and she is pissed);
> 
> Reinstall  Debain saying no to grub, (same error message on reboot);
> 
> Windows boot disc to get me to the recovery console but it doesn’t want 
> to accept my password as the “administrator password” and I’ve tried 
> every password I’ve ever used and can’t get in;
> 
> Knopixx bootable Linux which shows me the partitions but I am told that 
> one should not make a NFTS writeable and therefore this is useless.
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a way to use Knoppix to fix the MBR on 
> NFTS? Anybody have any other ideas? Know a good divorce lawyer?

If you just want to get back to your Windows install, you could use this 
tool to reset the administrator password:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Then you'd be able to use the recovery console.

Charles
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