Hello people,
I made a huge mistake while trying to make a bootable flash drive for proteus.
On my win7 machine I ran that .exe that makes the flash drive bootable from my desktop (regretted almost instantly as I knew what was going to happen). Now I can't boot into windows and there's an error that says Syslinux: No default or configuration directive found. I may have posted this on a wrong forum but please help it's my brothers lap top which makes things even worse!
Is there something I can do from Proteus since I'm currently using it from my usb stick.
Big f*ck up
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Re: Big f*ck up
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Re: Big f*ck up
Bogomips wrote: Ed_P, windoze specialist.
This doesn't sound good bastadur.
And what "that .exe" are you referring to? Name please.bastadur wrote:On my win7 machine I ran that .exe that makes the flash drive bootable from my desktop
Sounds like you knew you specified the hard drive rather than the USB drive. C: vs D:?(regretted almost instantly as I knew what was going to happen).
When you try to boot into Windows is the USB drive plugged in? How are you trying to boot into Windows, is there a menu to choose what system to boot?Now I can't boot into windows and there's an error that says Syslinux: No default or configuration directive found.
You are so screwed. If he is an older brother consider living with a neighbor for a few days.I may have posted this on a wrong forum but please help it's my brothers lap top which makes things even worse!
Well at least something worked.Is there something I can do from Proteus since I'm currently using it from my usb stick.
Can you open a terminal window and do a command and post it's results?
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ls /mnt/sda*
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Re: Big f*ck up
You have overwritten the mother boot record. Two options.
1) Run your windows disk and repair the mbr. Run a windows repair disk and run fixmbr
https://neosmart.net/wiki/fix-mbr/
2) Boot windows from the syslinux bootloader.
http://reboot.pro/topic/17808-boot-win7/
http://reboot.pro/topic/17831-bootmgr-with-syslinux/
1) Run your windows disk and repair the mbr. Run a windows repair disk and run fixmbr
https://neosmart.net/wiki/fix-mbr/
2) Boot windows from the syslinux bootloader.
http://reboot.pro/topic/17808-boot-win7/
http://reboot.pro/topic/17831-bootmgr-with-syslinux/
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