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Urgent Help, Messed up dual boot

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/urgent-help-messed-up-dual-boot.180198/

marvelousprashant
marvelousprashant Original post #1
Dec 23, 2013 at 5:47 PM
Hi guys

So my friend asked me to fix his very old HCL laptop. On boot it had a dual boot menu which had some Linux and Windows XP as boot options. I booted into XP, opened disk manager and deleted all partitions except C. Now the PC boots up and says "gnu grub version 0.95.... etc" and I don't see any option to boot to XP.

Anything I can do to fix it?
rijinpk1
Dec 23, 2013 at 7:37 PM
insert disk and do repair
meetdilip
Dec 23, 2013 at 8:19 PM
Try Hiren Boot CD.
marvelousprashant
Dec 23, 2013 at 9:04 PM
I had a win 7 disk and used cmd to fix mbr.
meetdilip
Dec 24, 2013 at 11:04 AM
Glad it is fixed.