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Hi all,

When intalling FC3 i deleted the pre desktop area and the Rescue and Recovery. I currently have Windows XP and FC3 installed. All was working fine till I decided to download the Rescue and Recovery software and installed it... Now the bootloader (grub) is gone. And I cant access the RnR by pressing the blue Access IBM button on boot. Booted using a rescue disk and tried doing grub-install /dev/hda but to no avail. Nothing happens...grub-install does not install the boot loader......

Any ideas on how to recover the boot loader????

I know this is an older post but I just ran into the same problem. Here's how I solved it:

• Boot a Knoppix or any other decent Live-CD
• Run GRUB:

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  # grub
  

• Inside GRUB do the following:

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  grub> root (hd0,1)     # This is the location of the /boot partition, in GRUB syntax (mine is on /dev/hda2, 
                         # the Windows partition being /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0)
  grub> setup (hd0)      # GRUB is installed in the MBR of /dev/hda (i.e. (hd0) in GRUB syntax
  grub> quit
  

• Reboot the machine. If your /boot/grub/grub.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst hasn't changed then you should be back to normal.

That should take care of the boot loader. How this affects the Rescue and Recovery thingy I don't know yet.