Windows 10: An update has corrupted/erased the boot loader and the win 10 OS folder is now a zero data...

An update has corrupted/erased the boot loader and the win 10 OS folder is now a zero data file and most system files are now in found.003. help please?This is a friends PC that must have ran an update without them knowing and has now essentially flattened the OS folder and in the process dskcheck has "recovered" the system files. I'm using Linux to look at the drive as nothing else will work and I had to save their data, work, homework.Thanks in advance!

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how to rebuild the ubuntu boot loader

I was using the boot loader that ubuntu installed to load linux and windows xp individually, but after I tried to reinstall xp using a bootable usb drive it erased my boot loader information leaving xp as the only os to boot.

I want to know what are the commands that I need to input maybe inside a live ubuntu so I can use my existing ubuntu instalation as well as xp like it was before this accident.

 

How do I remove the Linux Boot Loader?

You don't actually uninstall a boot loader but replace it with another.

You cannot get Ubuntu to start on a Windows' boot loader, it needs to be GRUB (or an open source equivalent).

Any ways, to get the Windows' boot loader back up, you need to insert your WIN7 installer disk and select the repair option>startup repair. I am assuming the WIN7 will use a similar setup menu as VISTA.

Follow the guide here for step by step intructions: Fixing the Windows Bootloader via the setup DVD

After that, just format the partition/disk that ubuntu is on...

 

Move Boot Loader?

I installed Ubuntu Karmatic Koala on a partition utilizing some free space i had on a 320GB drive (which also is where i store my files. I have 160GB hardrive with windows 7 on it and the boot loader for grub. I want to wipe the 160GB harddrive so i can use it for storage but doing so will erase my boot loader making the harddrive unbootable. What should i do?


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