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I was having problem with booting Ubuntu. Then I used Easeus partition manager to delete the partition that has Ubuntu. Maybe I have done it wrong. Because now I have also lost Windows. Luckily I came to know of a tool called boot repair from this forum. I used and here is the result from it Paste bin boot info summary. Can someone please decipher what this says and possibly help me out. Thanks.

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Do you have windows recovery disk? If yes, you can repair boot record from Windows recovery disk.

Use fixmbr command.

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I don't have windows recovery disk. If that is the ONLY solution I can make one by downloading from the internet.[And also how can I make a "recovery" disk for windows if I have just the windows 7 installation iso] I have very slow internet connection. So I hope that is not the only solution – srikanth chandrasekaran Apr 25 '12 at 14:43
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From your BootInfo script we can see that the Windows boot sector was overwritten. No way to fix other than with a Windows recovery. This can also be done from an installation CD (windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/…). Of course after that you will not be able to boot Ubuntu again until you reinstall Grub. – Takkat Apr 25 '12 at 15:05

Solution with Win PE

If you have a Win PE system , install it onto your usb key or burn a CD.

Downlaod http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm and try the command.

I've done this multiple times , it's easy to fix.

Solution with grub-0.9*

Use grub to load your windows , e.g

grub> rootnoverify (hdA,B)
grub> makeactive
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot

It may fail , but worth a try. (At least for Windows XP I tried last time)

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Since you said you don't have a windows disc, try reinstalling grub from a ubuntu live cd:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

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You need either Windows disk or (Ubuntu) Linux live CD/USB. Do everything possible to boot into a live desktop/system.

For Windows, in command prompt run fixmbr.

For Ubuntu or other Linux live-system,

Method 1: Install syslinux.

sudo apt-get install syslinux

Then, use following commands write mbr (Use sudo fdisk -l to find out your device name):

sudo dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda

Method 2: Install mbr

sudo apt-get install mbr

Then, write mbr by:

sudo install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/sda
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