Re: GRUB issue. Please help!!!

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Rick H wrote:
> First of all, this issue is not really bug. I ran into some issue with GRUB,
> and hopefully I can get some advice from some expert here.
>
> Here is how I ran into this issue:
> 1. Originally, my pc had only one hard disk (C drive), which had XP
> installed on it.
> 2. Later, I added second disk to install SUSE on it (D drive)
> 3. So I had GRUB installed, which is supposed to load SUSE boot loader
> first, then it would allow me to choose which OS to load, SUSE  (on D drive)
> or XP (on C Drive). This worked fine.
> 4. Recently, my second drive went bad, stopped working, which caused GRUB
> not able to find boot loader on D drive, which, in turn, cause me not able
> to use XP on C drive, although I am pretty sure my C drive is still good.
>
> Is there anyway I can fix or remove my current GRUB, so I can use my XP on C
> drive without reinstalling it.

Depends on where you installed grub to begin with.  Have you been
booting from drive D or drive C -- i.e. is the grub bootblock installed
on drive D or drive C?

If you have been booting from drive D, your fix might be as simple as
changing your BIOS to boot from drive C instead.

If you have always booted from drive C, then your grub was installed on
drive C and you should still see the grub boot menu when you start the
machine.  If that's the case then hit 'c' to drop into grub's command-
line mode and type 'chainloader +1' to boot windows (assuming the old
version of grub).