Fried my MBR

[Redmage913]

Hey there,

I know exactly what I did wrong here, so maybe this'll be a slightly easier problem to fix.

I got the bright idea of installing a flavour of Ubuntu on an SDHC card, thinking that I can have my netbook either boot from the hard drive or boot from the SDHC slot. Thinking that I would need GRUB on the hard drive, I put it there.

Slight problem: GRUB can't read the SDHC card by itself - I'm guessing that a driver is essential to the slot's function. Therefore, GRUB sends me an error and goes to a grub-recovery console, which I have no idea how to use.

What I need to do is boot up to Win7's recovery console and fix the MBR - I want to restore it to a Windows-only machine.

What commands will I need to create a new MBR and restore my boot sequence?

--Red

 

[theog]

Try this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html?ltr=S



http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html?ltr=R

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Hey there,

I know exactly what I did wrong here, so maybe this'll be a slightly easier problem to fix.

I got the bright idea of installing a flavour of Ubuntu on an SDHC card, thinking that I can have my netbook either boot from the hard drive or boot from the SDHC slot. Thinking that I would need GRUB on the hard drive, I put it there.

Slight problem: GRUB can't read the SDHC card by itself - I'm guessing that a driver is essential to the slot's function. Therefore, GRUB sends me an error and goes to a grub-recovery console, which I have no idea how to use.

What I need to do is boot up to Win7's recovery console and fix the MBR - I want to restore it to a Windows-only machine.

What commands will I need to create a new MBR and restore my boot sequence?

--Red

Hello Red Welcome to SF,

I'm not an expert in this but this Tutorial might helps http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864-mbr-restore-windows-7-master-boot-record.html

Hope this helps,
Captain

 

[Redmage913]

Hey,

Thanks for both your inputs. The guide the Captain sent me is exactly what I was looking for - I just didn't know there was a MBR guide on here.

--Red