I have a store-built with Intel Core2 Duo and 4G ram. It came with Win Vista, and has 2 internal hard drives and 3 external USB connected hard drives, plus several usb sticks. I added Ubuntu 13.04 to the second hard drive and Mint 15 to an external hard drive. I was adding Mint 16 to the 2nd external hard drive when I developed problems. I couldn't use any of the Linux OSs and kept getting error messages [which I foolishly did not record]. Then, when I tried to reinstall to see if that would give me a usable bootloader, I got the message: "Installation error [as superuser]. Warning: the GRUB bootloader was not configured properly! You need to configure it manually. I tried changing up the installation, and now cannot even access Windows. I admit to being a 28 year user of Windows, but a fair newbie with Linux. I think I set up more than 1 bootloader [on more than one drive]. However, I do not know how to boot into any of my OSs at this point, and do not have the cli skills to undo whatever I have done. HELP!
PS: I have no idea how to get rid of distros after I have experimented with them and decided to move to another.
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Try here >>> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html under "GRUB 2 recovery".
or here >>> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/
or here >>> http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245
or here >>> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/
or here >>> http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245
Full time Linux Mint user since 2011 - Currently running LM21C on multiple Dell laptops - mostly Vostro models.
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newhoperobertn
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Sorry for not responding sooner, I was out of town a week.
Thank you Reorx for your post.
From the links, I was able to discover that I had GRUB and not GRUB2.
I read up from the links and then used Rescatux to reset GRUB.
I was not able to get Windows working [I did try with Rescatux, but no luck], but Mint is working fine.
Thank you
Thank you Reorx for your post.
From the links, I was able to discover that I had GRUB and not GRUB2.
I read up from the links and then used Rescatux to reset GRUB.
I was not able to get Windows working [I did try with Rescatux, but no luck], but Mint is working fine.
Thank you
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Post a screen shot of Gparted looking at your HD...
Full time Linux Mint user since 2011 - Currently running LM21C on multiple Dell laptops - mostly Vostro models.
Re: booted
Full time Linux Mint user since 2011 - Currently running LM21C on multiple Dell laptops - mostly Vostro models.
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Windows isn't working because it's gone! It's partition has been removed... mystery solved... 
Full time Linux Mint user since 2011 - Currently running LM21C on multiple Dell laptops - mostly Vostro models.