If one is really familiar with Windows tools, he can just do his magic no matter what.ĭefault 0 # if you want windows as default - otherwise 'default 1' The only time you can be sure enough to let Windows tools do the job, is when you don't have Linux on your harddirve anymore.

On the other hand, if you let any Windows tool to handel your Linux partition, they probably will suck, saying 'something is wrong, i don't know what, but something is wrong!! do you want me to fix this?'. GRUB handles Windows elegantly by 'chainload' so Windows will not complain anything is different. The reason why I insist on using GRUB (and other linux tools) while you have Linux on your harddirve, is that it's much simpler and you will very unlikely mysteriously mess up your partition table or anything like that. And it's probably 'dangerous'/'bad practice' some'd say.

I haven't tried such an approach, so there might be some blind spot I'm not aware of. Note that you must make sure the partitions layout are restored identical to when you back up the MBR. On booting from a linux CD, I can see the files are in place.I have to get boot sector and partition table fixed.Any ideas- perhaps I should use test disk? But the manual talks about recovering LOST partitions.I want to repair existing one. I booted my XP live CD and like many times before ranĪfter that, now when I reboot, I am getting 'Invalid Partition Table' I got boot screen of EasyBCD but whichever option I select, I got an error message that address not Valid-NTLDR not found or something like that I deleted manually the Easy BCD menu.lst file and NeoGrub.mbr in my root.That was it, after I rebooted, With my fingers crossed, i rebooted but Easy BCD booted flawlessly with 2 choices XP and Mint(GRUB).As Easy BCD is not meant for XP, I thought of restoring original NTLDR of XP so that things would be in place and thinking that this cud avoid problems of detection by other Linux OS

Marked XP as my default and deleted Win 7 entry.Ģ. I had a tri boot of Win 7 /XP and Mint.I was using EasyBCD 2.0 as a boot manager.I booted Mint by configuring the NeoGrub option in Easy BCD.I wanted to uninstall Win 7 and so what I did was the followingġ.

Testdisk linux mint