Grub broke Windows bootloader?

[rokytnji]

is it a requirement that the PPA be added while running a live cd environment?

No. My grubrepair live cd was just boot and proceed with the repair. If I am understanding you right.
I never added the ppa and then install grubrepair through synaptic. I just bit the bullet and made a live cd.

I stumbled on this because of this
http://antix.freeforums.org/post37305.html#p37305
http://antix.freeforums.org/post37316.html#p37316


which caused me to burn the cd in the 1st place. AntiX had been using grub legacy till this new testing release when everything switched to grub2.
But the grub repair in AntiX was still for grub legacy through the Mepis Assistant. My job as a tester is to find out these things.
Anyways. After fixing AntiX boot. I was confronted with a Acer Aspire One zg5 I was mailing off to my father in law. It was dual booting
XP and MX-14. I deleted the MX-14 partition which of course broke grub on mbr because there was nothing to find.

I broke out the external dvdrw drive and used my grubrepair cd next.  Rebooted. Windows booted up like nothing had gone wrong.
I mailed that off and my father-in-law is a happy camper.

Same on that HP A350N Desktop I received. I had Puppy running on it to poke through Windows XP on it and was dualbooting with grub4dos
on it. I wanted to restore the Windows Bootloader on MBR and keep the Puppy on there and use a live cd to find the save files I made in Puppy.
That worked also. With that one. Windows would try to boot from the grub4dos menu. But would not make it. When I ran "FIXMBR" .
The error became corrupted mbr after that. I did not want to reinstall grub4dos because Windows would not boot with it.
So the grubrepair cd bailed me out of that corner also. Hence my original statement, "kinda sorta went through that".

I hope I understood your post OK. Happy Trails, Rok

Edit: in those images I show. Where it says the operating system I am using now under advanced options. You hit the drop down arrow to get to Windows.