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27-03-2006, 12:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ramakrishnan The Researcher Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mumbai Posts: 1,122	grub master boot record error I installed opensuse in my pc having win xp pro. xp is on C: which is primary partition. I decided not to use opensuse and formatted the partition where it is installed using norton partition magic. when I booted, windows is telling error 17. it also tells grub is starting. what is grub? how to boot into xp again. I have already tried recovery mode using xp CD. Please help

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27-03-2006, 12:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
QwertyManiac Commander in Chief Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 6,658	Ur MBR is resided by GRUB. Boot with yr Win XP cd, go to recovery console and type fixmbr and exit and reeboot. it will go away... __________________ Harsh J www.harshj.com

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Ur MBR is resided by GRUB. Boot with yr Win XP cd, go to recovery console and type fixmbr and exit and reeboot. it will go away...

Thank you. Your suggestion has solved my problem and gave me some new knowledge.

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