Friend dropped off a computer after trying to dual boot winblows 10

[Gamerhomie]

Man screwed his computer and now its stuck in grub recovery mode and I have no clue what to do. Any help would be appreciated, currently have a USB stick with windows 10 loaded on it.

 

[Deleted member 108694]

Might want to have a look here

error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found

error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found. grub rescue> What can I do? I just sit and stare at it. I found my old netbook (Dell Inspiron 1010) which I have not used for about four year...

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[Gamerhomie]

Might want to have a look here

error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found

error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found. grub rescue> What can I do? I just sit and stare at it. I found my old netbook (Dell Inspiron 1010) which I have not used for about four year...

askubuntu.com

already tried those solutions and it didn't work, tried 5 different approaches on youtube and they didnt work either

 

[Alexzee]

What Linux distro was he trying to install and dual boot with Windows?

I would boot up a Live USB or DVD with Linux and see what partitions exist if any first.
Linux Mint would work or you could just use a Live USB or DVD of gparted Live.

Once you know what's installed than you can decide what to do.

 

[Deleted member 108694]

Have you tried to use a live USB and re-install the grub from that
If it is a Buntu based OS you will need the LIVE USB
With the Live USB booted up now we need to mount the partition your Ubuntu Installation is on. If you are not sure which it is, launch GParted (included in the Live CD) and find out. It is usually a EXT4 Partition. Usually it is sda1 - just remember to change sda1 to whatever it actually is then when you get to the grub-install part just drop the 1

sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt

now we need to bind the directories that grub needs to access

sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev &&

sudo mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts &&

sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc &&

sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys

Now we need chroot

sudo chroot /mnt

now we install the grub, don't need sudo here since we are chroot

grub-install /dev/sda

now lets check it

grub-install --recheck /dev/sda

update-grub

Now we exit chroot and unmount

exit &&

sudo unmount /mnt/sys &&

sudo unmount /mnt/proc &&

sudo unmount /mnt/dev/pts &&

sudo unmount /mnt/dev &&

sudo unmount /mnt

now restart and hopefully the grub is back