Deleted master boot record?

bo
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I've outdone myself in my wisdom once again. I'll start from the beginning. So. I wanted to exchange the old hard drive for a new SSD from my laptop. On my laptop (ThinkPad x230) were at that time 3 operating systems. Win 7, Linux MINT and Kali. Linux MINT was in the master boot record. I just wanted to clone Win 7 to disk. That's what I wanted to do with the Windows function file image creation. I wanted to copy that to an external hard drive and then to the SSD. Only my external hard drive seems to have a few bugs. But I thought before it might be because Windows does not like the Linux partitions on the hard drive and I deleted them without thinking that Linux MINT is still in the master boot record. When I start my laptop now I'm in a grub rescue mode. There I have to choose somehow. Is there a simpler version? I have the same Win 7 ISO file on a stick. Can I fix it a bit easier with this? ^^

bo

Okay, as far as I understand I have no choice but to use the stick. See comments (

ki

Take the stick, boot off and then make the startup repair. Is the simplest. The MBR is completely rewritten.

Af

Download the (Boot-Repair-Dist) and you can fix the bootloader again and again if it is necessary for any reason.

Burn the ISO onto a CD or install it on a stick that you made earlier (bootable). https://www.chip.de/...58348.html

When done, then reboot and boot your PC from the medium.

Now all you have to do is follow the instructions.

Very simple, good luck.

bo

Thanks, is now running again.

bo

Helpful video on this: