[clue-tech] Help Recovering from grub-install error

[Matt Gushee]

gthrelk at comcast.net wrote:

> Installed grub at beginning of /dev/hda, verified the contents of sector 7 looked as described by the google article's described layout.  Upon reboot, I did get a little further with messages
> "Booting Windows98se"
> "rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> "chainloader +1" 
> but the boot then hangs.... I retried by copying count=3 rather than count=1 as the article suggested to me that the boot record occupied 3 sectors..... Same result on attempted boot.  However, I can now view some of the files via Windows startup disk but attempts to mass copy to a clean drive with utilities like xcopy or PartitionMagic result in "path errors".  Looks like I"ve still missed/messed something.  At least I can go after the files I MUST HAVE.

Sounds like a royal PITA. I still think you might want to try adding 
'makeactive' in your Windows section. It's just a hunch, and it's not 
clear from the info you've presented why it would be necessary, but it 
won't hurt anything. And Windows is strange sometimes.

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Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA