Ubuntu Live CD comes handy this case, just follow the following steps, you will be back in business.
- Boot from Ubuntu Live CD
- Then you need to download the ms-sys, you can find that from - http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/i386/ms-sys/download
- Once downloaded it will ask for auto install, click that
- Next type “sudo fdisk -l” , from that you can find the main partition you want to fix
- Then type “sudo ms-sys -m /dev/sda”
- Next restart, everything should work fine.
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Way to go *sswipe. All I wanted to do was restore a boot option for my windows partition. Instead, I took your advice and the result was "ntldr not found"- NOT EVEN AN OPTION TO BOOT BACK INTO MY LINUX INSTALLATION. I ended up having to re-install Ubuntu a 2nd time, since I do not have any more disks to burn a Windows boot disk. What a waste of time. You NEVER should have advised to run ms-sys. There is a reason it has disappeared from the repository. Thanks a lot.
Hey Jim,
I am so sorry to hear that, I have posted the steps I followed to get my machine working. As I mentioned in the post everything worked fine with me.
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
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