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  2. Vista Mbr Messed Up

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    i am no longer getting the grub error. it was "error 22". now all i get is a black screen with a flashing cursor. when i check the partitions in the command window it shows the largest partition of ~297 MB as a linux file system. do you know how i can get it back to an ntfs?

  3. Vista Mbr Messed Up

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    running vista on primary disk. decided to install freespire. bad move. it messed up the vista boot. i currently have 3 disks installed.

    1 - vista with bad boot sector

    2 - fresh install of vista

    3 - ubuntu

    if i boot linux, i can see the other 2 disks and files. i have copied most of my files to other drives. if i try to boot off of disk 1 with the bad sector, it won't boot. i get a grub error.

    if i boot the fresh vista load i can see the other disk, but when you view it with disk manager the bad drive has blank for the file system and volume label.

    i have tried to use bootrec and fixmbr, but no luck yet.

    i have some things left on the disk i need to get to before i wipe the drive. how can i get this disk to boot again????

    i have tried the vista cd to boot with and open a command window. the problem is i can't see the drive letter that i want to repair. the "c" drive is pointed to the recovery sector.