On Apr 20, 3:59*pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
I did say in my initial reply - the Admin password is *usually* NOT set to anything -
therefo just press [ENTER] when asked for the Administrator password - instead of
trying to enter one.

You are nearly there!

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Cheers, * *Tim Meddick, * *Peckham, London. * *:-)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --------system32

Thank you once again, Tim.

I booted again, and at the press ENTER? prompt, I entered 1, and at
the request for an Administrator password, I hit Enter.

I am now looking at the C:\WIDOWS prompt.

I should have mentioned somewhere in this thread, that my computer
experience has been, until last year when my wife gave me the Netook,
entirely with Macintosh.

I am retired, now working as an independent contractor, and my
colleagues, all seniors, look to me for computer help at work, a
Windows environment.

This led to my wife's getting me the Netbook and my setting out to
learning Widows. This is my first shot at serious troubleshooting in
Windows.

So, I read all your instructions again then entered FIXMBR. It
produced dire warnings, "If you are not having problems accessing your
drive, do not continue."

I continued, got "The new master boot record has been successfully
written.

Shut down, rebooted, and once again got:
GRUB loading.
error: no such partition
grub rescue

Followed these instructions from you:

If there is still a problem, repeat the above procedure to start
Recovery Console
again, then type in the command : FIXBOOT C: then press [ENTER]
then again type EXIT then [ENTER] to reboot.
If the XP partition is still intact, then usually just following the
first part of
this procedure should recover the MBR so that XP can be booted to
again.

Received this:
The file system on the startup partition is NTFS
FIXBOOT IS writing a new boot sector
New boot sector was successfully written

Exited & restarted holding down the f2 key to return the boot order to
IDE HDD : Samsung at the top.

And found myself once again back at:
GRUB loading.
error: no such partition
grub rescue

Is there anything else that can be attempted in an effort to resolve
this problem???