There's a video produced by a Linux enthusiast going by the name nixie, that covers your situation.
Or you you could try this.
Windows 7 reinstall killed grub, how to get it back?
Hi,
I had a working windows 7 64bit / backtrack 4 r1 dual boot, but i had to reinstall windows 7, which is now working fine again. I did not touch the Backtrack installation, but windows 7 overwrited the boot manager, therefore i can't boot backtrack anymore. I could not find any information on this on the Backtrack page. I also still have it installed bootable to a 2 gb thumb drive, if that helps in rebuilding it.
How to fix this?
Fate
Re: Windows 7 reinstall killed grub, how to get it back?
There's a video produced by a Linux enthusiast going by the name nixie, that covers your situation.
Or you you could try this.
"Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced."
Re: Windows 7 reinstall killed grub, how to get it back?
I use Super Grub Boot Disk whenever I hose a boot partition.
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Boot_Problems
Re: Windows 7 reinstall killed grub, how to get it back?
Boot into BT 4 with your usb. Mount the BT4 partition.
then follow
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/usb/proc
mount --bind /dev /mnt/usb/dev
chroot /mnt/usb /bin/bash
edit grub config files to set up a listing for the windows partition
Then install grub
Follow This post as well.
Last edited by aerokid240; 08-18-2010 at 07:41 PM.
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