Jordan Peacock wrote: >Been working on my wife's machine, taking off ubuntu so she had enough >space for her files on windows. It's a Dell Inspiron laptop, a few >years old, had a few complaints but it's worked well until now. I was >in windows, reformatted the (used to be Ubuntu) space to NTFS, as a >place to store her files, and upon reboot got smacked with an 'Error >17" from GRUB over the missing OS (Ubuntu). The DVD-ROM drive has been >acting up and refuses to boot (it just spins aimlessly), and there is >no floppy drive, so we're really at a loss. I have all the appropriate >discs, and I know how to fix GRUB if I could access it....just can't >figure out how to access it... > >Btw, I'm looking into Dell Support/replacing DVD drive. But in the >meanwhile, if anyone thinks of something I missed it'd be greatly >appreciated. Thanks > > -jordan > > > 1. You're sure the DVD drive is broken, not just a bad CD? Tried another bootable CD, like Knoppix? 2. Could you put the laptop's drive into another machine, using a laptop drive/IDE adapter? Then get to its GRUB menu? BTW, we have had to replace a couple drives on our Inspiron. Kraig