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    Aspire One - master boot records problems

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Juomes, Dec 22, 2008.

  1. Juomes

    Juomes Newbie

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    My AAO150 came with Windows pre-installed, but I installed Ubuntu to dual boot it. When I went to uninstall Ubuntu, I did the dumb thing of erasing the partition it was on, leaving me with a half intact GRUB.

    Usually this problem can be solved by loading the XP recovery console and rewriting the windows mbr with the fixmbr command. I did so and it said it created the new bootloader, but when I restart my computer, grub still tries to load and gives me an error.
     
    Juomes, Dec 22, 2008
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  2. BStigsen

    BStigsen Notebook Enthusiast

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    My guess would be that grub was installed on a partition, and that this partition is still flagged as bootable.
     
    BStigsen, Dec 29, 2008
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