Dual Boot Mint & Windows 7 - Grub Rescue

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.Griff.

.Griff.

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Yesterday I installed Linux Mint 11 on a small partition alongside Windows 7. The installation went fine and when I rebooted the PC I was met with a LM boot screen prompting me to select an operating system to boot into.

I spent a few hours messing about in Mint before restarting the PC and booting back into Windows. Then I did something stupid - I removed the Linux Mint partition.

Now when I turn on the PC all I'm met with is a "Grub rescue" prompt and I can't get into Windows.

Any idea how I fix this?
 
I usually boot into recovery console (you can use the windows disc for that) and open cmd, then run fixboot and fixmbr. I can't remember which you'll need, but you can do both. Used to work for me with fudged windows XP installs. In fact, the repair thingy on the windows 7 disc may well fix it for you.
 
I've booted from the Windows 7 disc and tried the automatic repair tool. It confirmed it had found a problem and had fixed it yet when I restarted the PC all I got is the Grub rescue prompt again.

I've also tried to bootsect fix from the command prompt but that still results in me getting the Grub rescue prompt.
 
Note : 'fixmbr' doesn't work with Windows 7 (possibly not Vista either)

I had this problem, a quick google came up with a command for Windows 7 via the installation disc.
 
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