On Apr 21, 2:59*pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
Carl, I am so sorry to hear of your continued problems.

However, I am truly heartened by your tenacity in getting the USB Recovery Console
fully working for yourself.

One thing - because you logged on to C:\WINDOWS you know your XP partition is still
there, along with all your personal data!

The next thing I would have advised, would be to start-up your PC with a Win98 floppy
boot-disk. *I would then have instructed you to type the command FDISK - which would
list any partitions that still exist on the boot device. *If the XP partition still
existed you could make it bootable.

But, *as we are talking about a Netbook, this won't be possible.

BTW - You are getting "GRUB loading" because the boot-sector (a small hidden section
at the start of each partition) has been taken over by a Linux loading program
written on to it, in place of the Windows boot-sector loading "program" which
searches for NTLDR on C:\

The only thing I can then advise is to again, start up the PC with the bootable USB
drive, then type *both* commands - one after another - without [re]booting
in-between.

FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:

...then reboot. *This has worked for me in the past. *And, if still no joy, reverse
the order of the commands.

I do feel quite confident that we will get there in the end...

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

Tim -

Many thanks for your patience and perservance on this problem.

I am away from my Netbook, visiting family in South Carolina for a few
days, but will follow your instructins when I return home, early next
week.

I'll report on the results.

Carl.