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Thread ID: 101709 2009-07-24 00:19:00 Vista and GRUB error 17. Bryan (147) Press F1
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794641 2009-07-24 00:19:00 I have a problem.

When booting Vista, I get a GRUB loading Stage1.5 error 17 message.

The only way I can get into Vista is using a floppy bootdisk that I had made.

I Googled the problem and someone said that the problem was Ubunutu related. I did sometime ago use a Unubutu live disk to look at but did not load it onto the hard drive.

A suggestion was to get into the Vista system and in run, type Bootrec.exe /fixboot. I did this but it has made no difference.

Can anyone help please?
Bryan (147)
794642 2009-07-24 00:48:00 Boot from your Vista Recovery CD and run startup repair.

Blam
Blam (54)
794643 2009-07-24 01:32:00 Thank you Blam6.

Tried the repair options several times and it didn't work.

So.... and I've tried this before with success, I reloaded W7 (the first offering by PCWorld) to a separate partition and lo and behold, everything was fixed! Now I can unload W7 and wait for the real W7.
Bryan (147)
794644 2009-07-24 03:30:00 Must've been a corrupt bootloader, the W7 install probably re-created it. Blam (54)
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