Broke Spare Computer FIXED

[ACluelessUser]

So I have this old computer, Its a Dell Inspiron 660s Running Windows 7
Alrite so Ive heard of Debian never used it. So I went and downloaded it used that tool to make a usb for it
went and Dual Booted my spare pc. so like Debian/win7
So later I forgot why there was a usb in there and removed it, formatted it, all that jazz.
Tried to boot once I realized what I did, and it goes to a Grub Recovery thing

its just a black screen with:
error: no such device: d0eaf1ad-4086-4e06-a21b-b2c66f152f03.
Entering rescue mode. . .
grub rescue>_

Ive tried booting from those windows repair disks that came from my pc and it doesn't give me any error just a black screen like the one above just with no text.
Ive also tried putting a Debian installer usb into the system and it gives the same response. ^
Ive also tried some other various stuff to no avail.
Note its a crappy dell so it doesn't work the exact same as a normal pc

[ACluelessUser]

So I felt like saying I wouldn't be that pissed if I couldn't get the windows 7 back
Cause the whole point was to have debian/ something not windows
You know?

[habu]

haw you reed these forum thread
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=128389

[Ardouos]

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Edit: Removed redundant information.

[GarryRicketson]

,ACluelessUser » Its a Dell Inspiron 660s Running Windows 7

I actually have one of those myself,...I installed Debian Wheezy on it for my wife,
so it is not really mine anymore,...but any way,...

So I went and downloaded it used that tool to make a usb for it
went and Dual Booted my spare pc-----snip

Not very clear here, What is "That tool" ?
No matter really. First off, you do need to make sure the bios is set to boot from a USB device, first.
You also need to make a good bootable USB device, (bootstick) with the Debian installer on it. Another better alternative (what I do, so at least for me it is better).
I use a portable USB optical drive (CD/DVD drive), then I just used a CD to install,
at that time, it was Debian Squeeze I installed on it. So you down load the ISO you
want, burn it to a CD, use the Cd drive to boot with ( you still do need bios set to boot
from the USB device), install from the CD, I used a "live CD",..
There also is plenty of instructions on making a usb stick :
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ ... 03.html.en
or
https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ ... 03.html.en
I am not sure if Debian Jessie will work very well on this "Dell" I never tried,
Squeeze or Wheezy runs fine.
In any event making the usb device is still the same.

You can also make a bootable USB device using this "dd" command:

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dd if=/home/garry/ISO-images/Debian1.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync  

This is only a example, not to be taken literal, for example where it says
"Debian1.Iso", is the path to whatever Image.iso you use: IE:

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dd if=/home/joe/iso-image/debian-wheezy.iso 

The "of" is the path to your usb device, this can be determined by using
"lsblk" first, it may be some thing like /sdb as well as sdc,...

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man dd

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man lsblk 

There are many tutorials available that explain much better then I can if you just do
some searches. But beware of ones that use "this tool" or "that tool",...those tools
are not really needed, and most do not work well.
How ever:

The win32diskimager utility can be used under other operating systems to copy the image.

from:https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ ... 03.html.en Important
The image must be written to the whole-disk device and not a partition, e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1. Do not use tools like unetbootin which alter the image.

Any way, there is not sense in me copying everything from the documentation, to the forum, you should be able to do your own searches, or look at the links shown, and read them, follow the instructions care fully.
https://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb

[kiyop]

I guess that the MBR or default .efi entry in EFI SYSTEM PARTITION contains grub2 code, which tries to load necessary files (modules and/or configuration file such as grub.cfg) from a former (lost) partition (or BIOS BOOT partition), whose UUID is d0eaf1ad-4086-4e06-a21b-b2c66f152f03, in the USB. You corrupted the correct boot with grub2 by erasing the partition. No use crying over spilt milk.
How about using Super Grub2 Disk? http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/
Download iso file on another PC/laptop and burn it onto USB or CD or DVD and insert it to the Dell Inspiron 660s, which you broke(corrupted).
But, if the debian was installed onto the USB, the debian will not boot any more of course.

[dotlj]

its just a black screen with:
error: no such device: d0eaf1ad-4086-4e06-a21b-b2c66f152f03.
Entering rescue mode. . .
grub rescue>_

It sounds like you installed GRUB to the USB disk the first time, instead of the HDD, so that without the USB, GRUB is not found.
When installing Debian, it identifies all of the disks, usually by names such as /dev/sda .../dev/sdb...and so on. The size, partitioning and other details such as manufacturer usually make it clear which disk is which. At the end you may have to manually choose a disk - if you only have one hard disk it will usually be /dev/sda/ but check before writing GRUB. Debian does ask for confirmation at a number of the installation steps.

Once installed, remove the installation media, such as USB disk and boot from the internal disk.

[ACluelessUser]

Alrite I forgot I made this post
its fixed now
So I grabbed Hirens boot USB, and my copy of tails
plugged them both in, Hirens USB let me boot from tails USB
then in tails I formatted my HDD and the partition that Debian made
(i think) idk I just formatted all the partitions.
then I set the CD to be booted from (windows re-instillation media)
while I was in tails
Then I restarted removed the 2 USB and it booted from the CD
Then while in the windows installer I formatted the HDD again just to be sure
and deleted the second partition (15GB)
Then Installed Windows 7 again
And now its Fixed

[ACluelessUser]

uh what
(edit)
I guess other people reading this would wonder what Hirens boot CD is
and for some reason they can't use google
http://www.hirensbootcd.org/

[kiyop]

Congratulations!
I thought that you wanted to boot debian.
I have misunderstood what you wanted.
You wanted to recover Windows 7, didn't you?

[ACluelessUser]

Meh I just like having 2 computers