OHMYGOD! Help! System down!

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:mad::mad:Oh ****!! I'm screwed I think. I had Linux on a seperate HD. Perhaps stupidly, because I wanted to get rid of it, I formatted that drive within Windows. Then when I reboot I get an Error 17 code. So i try to remove the drive by disconnecting it, but then when I reboot I get an error 21.

I can't access Windows!!! Am I going to lose everything!??! This is a disaster... I want to cry...!!:(:mad::eek:
 
First thing take out your HDD and connect it as a slave to another PC. That way you will be able copy all your files to the host PC or a pendrive.
Have you tried booting from the XP CD and trying a repair install (non-destructive)
 
I've tried the repair install. The report it an on that said the Boot Manager was missing or corrupt, and it SAID it fixed it. But I still get the same error.

When I boot, it says 'GRUB Loading stage 1.5. GRUB Loading, please wait... Error 21'

But according to the system restore function in the repair options I run on the Vista disk, it says the Boot Manager is fixed! I don't get it!!
 
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Take a deep breath......

Then google fdisk/mbr or fixmbr.


Linux writes its bootloader ( GRUB ) to the MBR. When you remove Linux, GRUB remains in the MBR and gets confused when it can't find the Linux partition that you deleted. You want to get rid of it and restore a Microsoft MBR. That's what those two commands above do.
 
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eXor said:
Take a deep breath......

Then google fdisk/mbr or fixmbr.


Linux writes its bootloader ( GRUB ) to the MBR. When you remove Linux, GRUB remains in the MBR and gets confused when it can't find the Linux partition that you deleted. You want to get rid of it and restore a Microsoft MBR. That's what those two commands above do.
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OK, thanks. But how do I enter these commands then? By booting off the Vista disk, and going to 'Repair Your Computer', and going through the 'System Recovery' screen, it then gives me the option of opening a Command Prompt window. Doing this gives me a command prompt with X:\Sources written there, which I can change to C: but then what?

What do i type exactly? And will I lose any of my files doing this?
 
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at the command prompt type these 2 commands.....

bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /fixmbr

i think it's that order. :p

and it's safe. your files won't come to any harm. :)
 
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