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Lloyd Parsons
Flightless Bird
In article <Sqgbn.244215$N07.150771@en-nntp-05.dc1.easynews.com>,
Roy Smith <rasmith1959@live.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/2010 7:28 PM, Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> > In article ffpm59d4vopnknac98c5n763fa4r2c6fq@4ax.com>,
> > Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@mac.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Blast!! It didn't go well. Ubuntu puts grub (a boot manager) some damn
> >>> where on the HD and I can't get it off. I think it is a system reserved
> >>> area or boot sector. Unfortunately you can't write a boot sector from a
> >>> msdos disk's fdisk, cause there's no damn MSDOS around anymore.
> >>
> >>
> >> I was afraid of that. Restore disks are such a pain.
> >>
> >>
> >>> So, I started the Ubuntu install again. I'll set it for a 50G
> >>> partition, which will leave plenty for W7 and good enough to play around
> >>> in Ubuntu. The grub will allow the booting of either one or the other.
> >>> Not ideal, but OK.
> >>
> >>
> >> You could even just use GRUB to load 7 (without Linux installed), I
> >> think, although as you say it's not ideal. Might as well have Linux
> >> on there, if you're gonna have that loader, I suppose.
> >
> > I'm a bit hardheaded, so I kept digging. Here's how to do an mbr reset
> > without windows at all :
> >
> > http://www.thecoderanger.com/rewrite-a-windows-hard-disk-mbr-with-an-ubun
> > tu-9-04-live-cd/
>
> There's just one problem, starting with Vista Windows doesn't use the
> MBR to boot anymore. Instead it uses BCDedit to boot from. The easy
> fix is to download the Windows 7 System Repair disk from
> http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/. Once
> burned to a CD, this bootable disk will find your Windows 7 install and
> fix any boot problems it finds. This is the same CD that's created when
> you go to Control Panel - System and Security - Backup and Restore and
> clicking on the line "Create a system repair disc" on the left pane.
I just created that boot DVD. Told it to fix the booting problem. It
went off for a short time and said OK, things are fine.
But when I tried to boot the HD again, it boots into grub for OS
selection. So all is not as it seems...
Roy Smith <rasmith1959@live.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/2010 7:28 PM, Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> > In article ffpm59d4vopnknac98c5n763fa4r2c6fq@4ax.com>,
> > Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@mac.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Blast!! It didn't go well. Ubuntu puts grub (a boot manager) some damn
> >>> where on the HD and I can't get it off. I think it is a system reserved
> >>> area or boot sector. Unfortunately you can't write a boot sector from a
> >>> msdos disk's fdisk, cause there's no damn MSDOS around anymore.
> >>
> >>
> >> I was afraid of that. Restore disks are such a pain.
> >>
> >>
> >>> So, I started the Ubuntu install again. I'll set it for a 50G
> >>> partition, which will leave plenty for W7 and good enough to play around
> >>> in Ubuntu. The grub will allow the booting of either one or the other.
> >>> Not ideal, but OK.
> >>
> >>
> >> You could even just use GRUB to load 7 (without Linux installed), I
> >> think, although as you say it's not ideal. Might as well have Linux
> >> on there, if you're gonna have that loader, I suppose.
> >
> > I'm a bit hardheaded, so I kept digging. Here's how to do an mbr reset
> > without windows at all :
> >
> > http://www.thecoderanger.com/rewrite-a-windows-hard-disk-mbr-with-an-ubun
> > tu-9-04-live-cd/
>
> There's just one problem, starting with Vista Windows doesn't use the
> MBR to boot anymore. Instead it uses BCDedit to boot from. The easy
> fix is to download the Windows 7 System Repair disk from
> http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/. Once
> burned to a CD, this bootable disk will find your Windows 7 install and
> fix any boot problems it finds. This is the same CD that's created when
> you go to Control Panel - System and Security - Backup and Restore and
> clicking on the line "Create a system repair disc" on the left pane.
I just created that boot DVD. Told it to fix the booting problem. It
went off for a short time and said OK, things are fine.
But when I tried to boot the HD again, it boots into grub for OS
selection. So all is not as it seems...