anyedie Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Help, im a n00b and i cant get up! lol. I dual boot Mandriva and WinXP. Every so often (about a year) I feel the need to reinstall windows and clean it out. So I did that today, tweaked a few things, installed drivers and rebooted.. only to notice that my grub wasent there! I dident think that installing windows on side of a partitioned drive would wipe out the boot loader, but i guess it did. Does anyone know how I would install a bootloader with out having to reinstall another OS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothCriminal Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Have you tried using any live cd's? maybe you can check out your disk that way. This sounds like a job for cooper and sparda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 A live CD will let you reinstall GRUB, you could also try using something like GAG which is easier to install. Windows always overwrites the MBR without asking you for future reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalito Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I had this problem A LONG TIME AGO lol. So I don't remember all the steps but I know it's stupid proof because I remember I could do it lol. Go download Super Grub Disk. It's a boot cd that's made to fix problems with grub in a dual boot machine. Try it let me know what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted April 19, 2007 Author Share Posted April 19, 2007 wow guy's, thanks for the quick Serious quality answers! :) Im gonna check out both GAG, and Super Grub Disk tomaro and i'll post my findings. thanks again! Anyone else with suggestions or anything else neat in this realm PostIT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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