I made a very dumb mistake and need some assistance.
I have a Dell Inspirion N4110. It came with Windows 7 Home 64 pre-installed and I dual-booted it with Fedora 15. After a year and a half of little to no use and running out of space on my Windows partition, I decided to get rid of the Linux partition, reformatting it into NTFS. Everything was fine until I rebooted it. That's when things started to fall apart.
I was taken to a grub prompt and no clue what to do. As it's been a VERY long time since I've needed a Live CD of any kind, none of the ones I have work with 64 bit. I tried to do a recovery via my Fedora 15 DVD, but that didn't work, either.
I was finally able to dig up my Ultimate Boot disk and boot into Windows, which I'm grateful for. However, I don't want to rely on that.
How can I fix this? I'm assuming the problem is in the boot sector (Fedora had defaulted to the primary OS and would automatically boot into it if I wasn't watching it during a reboot). I have zero idea what to look for. My Ultimate Boot disk has several tools that could probably resolve the issue, but I'm quite afraid to do anything. I currently have no way to backup my files (approx. 100GB).
I have a Dell Inspirion N4110. It came with Windows 7 Home 64 pre-installed and I dual-booted it with Fedora 15. After a year and a half of little to no use and running out of space on my Windows partition, I decided to get rid of the Linux partition, reformatting it into NTFS. Everything was fine until I rebooted it. That's when things started to fall apart.
I was taken to a grub prompt and no clue what to do. As it's been a VERY long time since I've needed a Live CD of any kind, none of the ones I have work with 64 bit. I tried to do a recovery via my Fedora 15 DVD, but that didn't work, either.
I was finally able to dig up my Ultimate Boot disk and boot into Windows, which I'm grateful for. However, I don't want to rely on that.
How can I fix this? I'm assuming the problem is in the boot sector (Fedora had defaulted to the primary OS and would automatically boot into it if I wasn't watching it during a reboot). I have zero idea what to look for. My Ultimate Boot disk has several tools that could probably resolve the issue, but I'm quite afraid to do anything. I currently have no way to backup my files (approx. 100GB).