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Reformating computer without knowing linux was installed.
Hey guys.
A friend of mine gave me his computer to perform a quick reformat into.
It had two hard drives, and asked me to please reformat all of them. However One of the hard drives was not being detected with windows, so I went to disk manager, and formatted/shut it off.
Now whenever I try to boot back into windows I get the message Grub Rescue, and am unable to boot into windows.
I do not have a linux CD, and I only have a windows 7 professional installation disk which is not working since I get the message ''Windows has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer''
Status 0xc00000e9
If I try to boot windows from an USB flash, it does not get recognized and it displays Grub rescue again.
What could I do to fix this?
Any help is highly appreciated.