---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I installed LINUX feel how good are on the hard disk & other issues so (Ubuntu 9.

10) on my Dell Optiplex R&D PC just for curiosity & the looks and in this process also fiddled with the partitions too. It was somewhat usable but soon I got fed up with driver decided to get rid of it.

I thought restoring Windows 7 image from my WHS would be just a cakewalk, and re latively the process was very easy using Home Computer restore CD & the system s howed everything restored and asked for reboot. As I rebooted the system to my surprise it gave me this GRUB Loading. error: unknown filesystem grub rescue> then I rebooted again & nothing else happened but the same error. I tried to fig ure it out by using all the commands people have suggested everywhere on interne t and wasted about 4 hrs in search of a solution. The system remained unbootable with some data in windows partition but I was aware that I haven t touched that p artition but was still anxious to get everything as it was. Until I came across this instruction page on Microsoft's site and I am narrating the tips I followed for the recovery. Quick and easy fix to remove the dirty GRUB and get Windows again. 1. Put the Windows 7 installation disc in the disc drive, and power cycle your P C after setting it to boot from CD Drive in BIOS. 2. Press a any key when you are prompted & select [language, time, currency, key board etc.] & click Next . Select Repair Your Computer option in the dialog wind ow. 3. In the System Recovery Options window Click the 1^st Option Startup R epair and let it do what it wants to do, but in my case it didn t solve the proble m so I went to the next step. 4. In the System Recovery Options rompt . dialog box, go to the last option i.e. Command P

5. Once in the command prompt (X:\Sources> ), type exactly the following command s in the same sequence bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup C: CD Boot Attrib bcd s h r

ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old bootrec /RebuildBcd

then it said Scanning all disks for windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while Successfully scanned windows installations: 1 [1] C:\windows Add installations to boot list? Yes(y)/No(N)/All(A) : I pressed Y as there was only one instance of windows installation. d The operation completed successfully. 6. Next entred the following command on completed successfully. 7. Next entred the following command eration completed successfully. bootrec /fixmbr Then it sai

It said The operati

bootrec /FixBoot Again It said The op

8. Set the BIOS again to boot from the HDD and reboot.