Eassos System Restore

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I installed a back up programme called Eassos System Restore. The instructions read to reboot computer after installing. So after rebooting windows booted to a GRUB prompt. GRUB:\

Was able to fix this using my XP installation disk.

I know I carefully chose the version for my computer.

What would cause this?
 
I can imagine that this software somehow messed with the MBR of your drive and erased the data from it. Maybe a mistake you made, maybe a bug in the program. Hard to tell for sure.

I know that you isntalled the version for Windows because you can't install Linux programs on Windows. My question was if you ever had a Linux-based OS installed and were dual-booting, like Debian or Ubuntu.
 
I agree. I would have sawca screen about the version being incomparable. No be her had ant]ythung but Windows. I am glad that the installation disk With the two commands worked.
 
Since you seem interested in understanding what happened and why, I would recommend you read up on some related stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB

If you are still interested in learning after that, this is the absolute best place to start:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/533070.Computer_Science



Most appreciate. When I saw the GRUB prompt and when I typed in EXIT to see if that would get me into Windows. That did not work. So I looked up the fix and happy that worked.

Do you think this programme that I installed also installed Linux?
 
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Most appreciate. When I saw the GRUB prompt and when I typed in EXIT to see if that would get me into Windows. That did not work. So I looked up the fix and happy that worked.

Do you think this programme that I installed also installed Linux?

Definitely not. Linux is not some program you install. Linux (technically Linux is just the kernel, but I understand what you mean) is an operating system, like Windows. Installing a Linux based OS would take a long time, and it would require extra partitions in your drive. What the software did (I think) was replacing Windows' bootloader with GRUB for some reason. Then after that, GRUB didn't find any OS and entered GRUB rescue mode. In this mode you are supposed to tell GRUB where your OSs are installed so it can find them and boot them.

You should read this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
 
Definitely not. Linux is not some program you install. Linux (technically Linux is just the kernel, but I understand what you mean) is an operating system, like Windows. Installing a Linux based OS would take a long time, and it would require extra partitions in your drive. What the software did (I think) was replacing Windows' bootloader with GRUB for some reason. Then after that, GRUB didn't find any OS and entered GRUB rescue mode. In this mode you are supposed to tell GRUB where your OSs are installed so it can find them and boot them.



You should read this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux



You mean all that i needed to do is to type the path Windows is located? That would be at the GRUB prompt correct?

It is weird that having a GRUB prompt also looks like some sort of virus worm, being grubs are associated with the living worm.
 
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