Remove grub from boot sector windows 7

Each time when the system rebooted, it tried to run the halt installed Linux. The Grub shows there is a "ntldr", but select that it will not boot up Vista at all. The only method to fix this is to boot the computer from the installation DVD. Somehow the Intel motherboard treat Grub differently. Even we set the motherboard boot sequence to boot from CD first, as long as the CD is not the Topologilinux, the motherboard would always try to boot from HDD.

Boot your system to the GRUB menu. Make two changes to this list of commands as illustrated in the menuentry above. If you do this, I'd also suggest you change the title of this "custom" entry. It will be on the bottom of the GRUB menu when you boot.

Select the Repair Your Computer entry. Walk through the next windows until you reach System Recovery Options. Note 2: While searching for other things, I ran across two other questions on AskUbuntu which are related to your problem. Windows 7 won't boot after installing Ubuntu 11 Windows 7 doesn't boot after Ubuntu install I'm not sure how much help these questions provide.

Beats the heck out of me as to what might be going on there. Improve this answer. Yushin 6 6 bronze badges. Thank you for your reply. I alright have it, lucky, but if other people didnt know about it, they do now. See the update to my answer.

So what do you think I can do? Should I use bootrec and then reinstall grub? You could repair the Windows boot as usual, when that's done Windows will automatically boot without even asking you Windows does not recognize Linux. Added a suggestion for a possible temporary workaround to my answer. Show 5 more comments. What you did is you modified the VBR of the 1st partition; you may restore that by executing these commands in windows recovery mode in cmd when you boot from installation CD : bootrec.

Peter Evselyev 3 3 3 bronze badges. This is the only answer that actually works. Anwar 72k 28 28 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Thank you for the reply. What I meant was the grub boots but not windows after I select it.

Researching, people say that to repair boot for mbr, we should use "bootrec. Is your method the same as bootrec or different? In my experience,after Ubuntu installation as dual boot,it will be better to run Windows on reboot and do the repair by itself, then come back to Ubuntu.

I followed this method everytime and found successful. Operating System: Windows 7 This prevents Windows from booting. LovinBuntu LovinBuntu 3, 2 2 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. I edited grub. Philip Philip 4 4 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Solved my windows 10 boot problem I'm not sure this really belongs on this question Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

Idk though Andrew.. Good luck. If not that, burn the drive and use this as your opportunity to move up to ssd. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Some services used in this site uses cookies to tailor user experience or to show ads. Step 1 optional : Use diskpart to clean disk Format your Linux partition using Windows disk management tool.

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