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After reinstalling my Windows Vista I had to recover Grub menu. I tried https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows and EasyBCD. It was not working. I downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 CD and boot it, hoping to do a grub-install. After reboot I got my Grub menu and when trying to boot Vista a “NTLDR is missing” error.

The solution that worked for me was to:

FIRST OF ALL:

Follow http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD

SECOND OF ALL:

Follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover%20Grub%202%20via%20LiveCD

And watch out for the menu.lst generated (/boot/grub/menu.lst), mine included thinks like:

title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
root 
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3........
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.3........
quiet

But it should be:

title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3.......
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.3.....
quiet

It seams that update-grub when doing a chroot generated wrong partition numbers for grub. To be more specific it did not generate any partition pointers for the loader :) But after changing those everything works fine.

(hd0,4) is a grub partition number. if you don’t know how to find out what to type there study grub manual http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Naming-convention.html

Mine is:

hd - hard disk

0 - disk no. 1

4 - first extended partition

Problem: the context menu of TortoiseSVN appears in windows explorer but not in Total Commander’s context menu. Solution: you are probably using 64-bit version od TortoiseSVN. Use the 32-bit one.

I had this problem in my Windows Vista 64-bit, and after installing 32-bit version of TortoiseSVN it works.