New free laptops for students are provided in Tamil Nadu by the
Government. As they are giving dual OS(Windows 7 Professional and Linux)
for educational purpose , there is some problem occurs with that dual
boot. In order to rectify that problem this post will give you the
correct solution for that.
Problem identified:
while booting the laptop following occurs
"Grub rescue>"
In that laptop they didnt provide any CD or DVD R/W to load CD or DVD. So, we have to fix it via a Pendrive containing a Windows 7 OS.
Follow the steps one by one:
1. Plug in your Bootable pendrive to your laptop (Link:How to make a Bootable Pendrive?)
2.Power on the laptop and press F12 to boot . And select your pendrive.
3.Windows will load when the "Install Now" screen appears. select the "Repair your system" below that "Install Now".
4.Then it will show your operation system click on "Load Driver" which is located at the bottom.
5.There will be list of windows recovery options will be listed. From that select the command prompt.
6.Type the following code in that Command prompt: (Without qoutes)
"bootrec /fixmbr"
7.Thats all finished. Now you got your old msdos loader for both of your Dual booted OS's.
8.Then press Restart at the bottom of that current dialogue box to take effect.
9.After restart your laptop will show your both OS's to which from boot(Load).
To Make a Bootable pendrive Download the Following:
Universal usb installer Download this software. And select the Linux distribution as Windows vista installer. And select your Windows 7 iso file and select your pendrive then click on create >yes to make a bootable pendrive. Enjoy!!!
Dont forget to check "Format before install" on that software!!
