Ubuntu For Free » fixmbr http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu A blog covering the Ubuntu Linux distro for you and your wallet. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:01:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Recovering a crashed Windows on Dual Boot http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/recovering-a-crashed-windows-on-dual-boot/ http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/recovering-a-crashed-windows-on-dual-boot/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:03:18 +0000 admin http://www.forwardyouth.com/ubuntu/recovering-a-crashed-windows-on-dual-boot/ Having previously configured my laptop for dual boot, I was satisfied with the way things were running. My wife would use XP. We’d enabled GRUB to save the default using the Start Up Manager, so we could hibernate in order to switch users and operating systems.

All was fine until Windows said “ENOUGH!” and bit the dust. I started out by getting the ominous sounding “Error 13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format” from GRUB. I wasn’t able to mount the partition in Kubuntu so I’m unable to retrieve any files from it.

I’ve tried using the Windows disk to boot to the recovery console. From that, I used fixmbr and it still didnt work. I used the great program Super GRUB disk to restore GRUB. Unfortunately, Windows still did not boot. What finally fixed it, was using FIXBOOT from the recovery console in Windows XP.

What an ordeal.

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