GRUB recovery after installing Windows XP

If any one use dual boot system then after installing windows again we lost GRUB loader. It can recover in various method. Here i discuss GRUB recovery using Live cd. For this we have to boot our system by Live cd.

Follow the step to recover grub bootloader:
1. Boot with Fedora Live CD
2. Open shell
3. mount the linux partition using the command
example: mkdir /mnt/tmp
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/tmp
3.Type the commands:
grub
4.Then it shows grub> like this
grub>find /boot/grub/stage1
5.It will give a output like this (hd0,7) 7 is here for example, it will be number of ur partition.
grub>root (hd0,7)
grub>setup (hd0)
grub>quit

Then reboot your machine from the hard disk.
Note: For hda1,sda1 it will be (hd0,0),hda2,sda2 it’ll be (hd0,1),hdb1,sdb1 it’ll be (hd1,0)