Reinstall windows xp bootloader over grub

Insert the installation disc in the tray and boot from it. At the Welcome screen, click on Repair your computer. Choose your operating system and click Next. Press Enter. To do that, boot into your Windows and make a recovery drive search create a recovery drive in start menu and follow the on-screen instructions.

Boot into this drive, and follow the steps: Select troubleshoot. Select advanced options. Select open cmd. If prompted press Y. Exit the command prompt and restart the computer the GRUB bootloader is not longer available.

Open a Terminal window. Type: sudo os-prober. If the results identify a Windows 10 install, type sudo update-grub which will update the GRUB entries and add it. Senior Member Open the Start Menu and type in cmd. A window should open up allowing you to modify your grub. To be sure I had the step-by-step instructions memorized, I used the CD to install Windows XP on a local hard drive first, while writing down each step. During the install process, Windows XP refused to fully register.

When it contacted Microsoft over the Internet, their database properly knew that this operating system was licensed to run only on my daughter's laptop. So, I knew I only had 30 days to use XP. But that was no problem because the main reason to install it was accomplished. I intended normal work to be done on this system using Linux, allowing the first 10 GB to be a play partition where I could re-install Windows XP if I wanted, or eventually let Linux have it.

In order to put Linux on the rest of the drive beyond the first 10 GB , I had to get install disks. Doing the network install downloads the applications only if you select them. Of course, the down-side is that you have to have a reasonably fast internet available during the installation procedure. The GRUB loader is nice because the piece of code that is actually written on either the Master Boot Record of the drive or on the Boot Sector of a partition, is static.

How do I fix a corrupted grub? The solution To fix the problem execute from grub command line: Restore boot partition on hd0,0 first partition on first disk as in above example from find command.

Then setup grub on first disk hd0 — as in above example boot stage1 is located on hd0. After command will succeed reboot the server. Make sure that Ubuntu is above Windows in the boot order. Add new boot option. Browse to EFI file. Select EFI directory. Select Debian. I did try a few of the good suggestions above to no avail.

I think MS have gotten even trickier. Mike Mike 31 2 2 bronze badges. Windows 10 overwrites GRUB 2 when you change the text color, size, font, or menu entry titles. There are two ways to solve this. Rui F Ribeiro Anonymous Anonymous 43 6 6 bronze badges. HalosGhost 4, 10 10 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges.

John Milionis John Milionis 19 1 1 bronze badge. This may work if the Windows install merely changed the boot partition. In my case The Windows 8. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses.

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