Windows 7: GRUB loading Error 22

Hi all,

I've spent the last several hours reading several helpful topics on this forum, and am hoping this can become one of them! Here's a bit of my situation...

I have a Dell XPS 430 that came with Windows Vista and a Windows 7 upgrade disk. I set up my main hairddrive with Windows 7 on one partition, Linux on another partition, and a third partition for storage. I recently needed more space for Windows, and no longer needed Linux, so using the Windows 7 disk manager I deleted the Linux partition and extended the Win partition using the newly unallocated space.

Upon restarting my machine, I am no longer able to boot into windows, but instead am presented with the message:

GRUB Loading, please wait...
Error 22

I have a Windows 7 disk that I am using to access the repair utility, which I have run countless times. I have tried severel of the tutorials to rebuild BCD and FixMBR, etc etc. Frankly I am getting lost in all the commands and not even sure what does what anymore!

Help please???

this thread here may help, although its for a vista fix i think it would apply to 7 also...

[SOLVED] Vista GRUB Error 22 - Tech Support Forum

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