GRUB rescue

Traxler331 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:22:42 -0400

I had a dual boot with win 7, Ubuntu, and Linux mint. I deleted the two partitions for Linux and Ubuntu and extended the windows partition back into the unallocated space. When I restart my computer , I get an error that reads

"loading operating system.. GRUB loading. Error: no such partition. Entering rescue mode... Grub rescue>"

And I'm not sure how to get windows to boot back normally from here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Linux solution to create Win7 VBox VM from WinRE

cloaked1 — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:54:13 -0400

First question is is it possible? I don't see why not but maybe someone else has done this. Here's my situation.

I have a new HP laptop that came with Win7 x64 with the installation files possibly on a hidden partition or embedded in the recovery partition; there was no external recovery media included with the laptop. I rarely use Win7. Instead, I boot off eSata hdd with Linux and primarily run that. I'd like to take Win7, which I own, and create a VM from it (prefer not to use the physical disk that already contains win7 as that is dangerous according to VBox)

So, I am able to find the recovery partition for windows7. I created an image from it, mounted it, and verified it. It's supposedly already bootable:

/media/BigDisk2-0/win7BootPartition/win7RE.iso: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 1886881792, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)

VBox won't mount it, though. It gives the following error:

FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.

So, that's odd and I'll need to look into that more. At any rate, after more searching, it seems that this partition is probably NOT the actual partition with the win7 installation files (haven't 100% verified yet). However, I'm thinking that if I can still boot the recovery image with VBox, that it will allow me to "recover" Win7 by fooling it that it's part of a real machine. The WinRE image I'm using is mounted in vbox as a CD with the vmdk set as a SATA HDD.

The end state here is that I'd like to run my copy of Win7 in my VM instead of from the primary drive on the host machine so that I don't have to reboot into it in order to use it. I wouldn't technically be violating any EULAs because I can't run both copies of Win7 concurrently so only one copy would be running at a time.

I'm currently attempting to do this with VBox 4.1.4 (latest copy) on an HP dv7-4290us laptop x64. The parent OS is Fedora 15 x64.

LINUX-WINDOWS DUAL BOOT

ajtvsv07 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:57:28 -0400

I don't know how to install Gnacktrack side by side along with the windows7. I tried it more than 5 times but i cannot dual boot it. Can anyone help me to install and say how can boot windows as well as Linux?

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