restore Grub

[nims11]

few weeks back i used to dual boot between XP and MINT 10 until an evil virus infiltrated XP and destroyed my GRUB bootloader. i then had to "FIXMBR" and "FIXBOOT" using the XP CD to restore my XP. but i have to do this everytime i open my comp after shutting it down.

Now i want to get free from this hassle and want to restore my GRUB. i googled for tutorials and all i got was failure.
help...

 

[gk2k]

I assume that mint has grub version 2. So you can use the following link(though this is for ubuntu for mint it will be the same)
How to Restore Grub 2 As The Main Bootloader

If this does not work u can see here (this link is for the old version of grub

 

[nims11]

Thanks Buddy, i am now able to boot into mint after following the steps in the first link.

 

[gk2k]

It means that your mint uses grub 2

 

[nisargshah95]

To completely resotre your grub (both older version and grub2), there's an open source utility called Auto Super Grub Disk for grub and Rescatux for grub2.

Rescatux -

Fixes GRUB
Fixes GRUB2
It cannot boot on other systems (only Rescatux itself)
Regenerates grub menues (Only in Debian/Ubuntu systems)
Check filesystems and fix them
Size - 371MB

Super Grub2 Disk

Does not fix GRUB
Fixes GRUB2
Boots into many systems and GRUB2 ones!
Can’t regenerate grub menues
Can’t check filesystems and fix them
~ 1.44 MB Size

Super Grub Disk

Fixes GRUB
Does not fix GRUB2
Boots into many systems
Can’t regenerate grub menues
Can’t check filesystems and fix them
~ 4 MB Siz