grub

Hi, I installed ubuntu 9 and then removed. however grub loader still appearred during booting up. and then fail to boot of course. I use windows 7 DVD to repair the startup problem. But it says no problem found. Finally I have to use XP CD to boot to recovery console and type "fixmbr" to solve...

Hello! I installed Ubuntu, but now want repair the mbr so 7 is the only boot option. Is there a way without reinstalling the os? Thanks in advance! Oh, never mind! Easy-peasy EasyBCD!

Hi Everyone I broke my own rule and tried to upgrade from Vista home premium to Windows 7 and whilst the upgrade seemed to go fine and my system was working ok (a part from an error I get whenever I boot up) but now after 1 automatic fix upload by Windows 7 my system takes a very long time to...

I have 2 hard drives, the first has Win 7 RC1 and the second has XP and Vista in their own partitions. The Win 7 boot loader gives me the choice of Win7, Vista and XP when I boot up. The question is: If I install Ubuntu onto the second HD in a currently unoccupied partion, will GRUB (which is...

I used to have Ubuntu dual-booted with my Windows 7 and I just recently removed it because I wanted this computer to run just Windows 7 only. My only problem is that I can't run Windows 7 when I remove Ubuntu because the GRUB Loader is in the way. I know there's a fix of some sort about typing...

Ok...I initially had winxp 64 bit on one partition, I then loaded Ubuntu to see if I liked it. I didn't, so I formatted that drive but the Load always showed Ubuntu at boot time. I then installed win7 and all was fairly good. I could access either 64 bit XP or win7. Yesterday my TimeBomb said I...

Hi. I have a tri-boot system on my computer, running Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.04. I have Ubuntu's bootmgr GRUB running as the initial boot manager, and from there I can either boot into Ubuntu or Windows. The problem is, though, that Windows 7 installed its boot manager on Windows XP...

windows 7 keeps restarting when there is a hidden primary NTFS formatted partition I assume it tries to install it's bootmanager there but is then unable to finish the installation why is it that windows 7 can detect a hidden partition during installation and then decides to use it anyway even...

Hi All I recently installed Windows 7 which promptly took over the boot process and gave a rather curt name for my earlier Windows XP Pro SP3 installation as in "earlier version of Windows" or something. Then I installed Debian 5 which insisted writing GRUB to MBR and all hell broke loose...

What an adventure!! I'm posting this in the hopes of preventing someone, somewhere some grief if they use a similar approach to setting up a new HDD. I just purchased a new, larger (Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm HDD,320 GB) to replace the 200 GB Momentus 7200 rpm drive I've been using for awhile...

(Note: Linux knowledge not necessary, but possibly helpful.) I just installed Windows 7. I keep my laptop with several partitions, because I like to experiment with different operating systems. I had one partition in use (Linux), and several open. Partition 2 was already NTFS, Partition 3 was...

I am in the market for some advice. I am considering updating my Vista SP1 to Windows 7 RC. My machine is a dual boot and I also have Linux Mint (ubuntu) installed. When it boots, the grub boot loader comes up first and I have to choose Vista from a list to boot it. Now, if I upgrade...

Ok, im not sure if this is in the right forum, it covers topics of 7 and other operating systems so I'm hoping someone can help me. I wont explain why I want to do this, but for the general purpose, its for security reasons. I have a triple-booted computer. Meaning, I have Windows XP, Windows...

Whoops, typo in title :-( Hello world!, The situation: I have two hard drives in my computer, Each with two partitions. Hard Drive One has two partitions which are just used for storing stuff. Hard Drive Two has two partitions, first one is for XP, and second is for Windows 7 C: is windows 7...

I've ahd Windows XP installed for a long time but I wanted to give a try to Windows 7 so I did. I really like it so I decided to completely remove my XP beacause I wasn't using it anymore. I used Gparted to delete my XP partition and move/enlarge my Windows 7 one. Everything went fine this...

Windows 7 includes its own pretty little recovery partition, which uses a non-standard format (UGGH!). I'd like to remove it from my laptop multiboot system. Anyone know if this will cause problems? I use GRUB as my bootloader. The tail end of my grub file looks like this: title Windows 7...

Hello! I'm new here and I just installed Windows 7 build 7000 finally before my time to activate ran out. I'm satisfied, etc etc (Even with Internet Explorer 8 but I'm sure that will end when I start web programming on this machine) So I did this on a machine that was primarily Linux (also had...

Hey everyone! So I clean installed W7 earlier this week. I then tried to install Ubuntu 8.10 to a totally free space (40gb) on the same drive; my c: drive. the Ubuntu install itself went off without a hitch! however... whenever I boot my computer, grub/ubuntu are totally ignored and W7 boots...

I have xp installed on a sata drive 0 Partition 0 I have vista installed on ide drive 0 I have mandriva installed on ide drive 1 The grub mbr is on sata drive 0 partition 0 and boots all three Boot Mandriva Boot Windows-XP Boot Windows-Vista Now I installed Win7 on sata drive 0 partition 1...

I downloaded the Windows 7 Build 7000 Beta today with the product key and I'm trying to install it on a Dell E520 desktop. Just to complicate matters, this machine already has Windows XP (installed on a primary partition) and Ubuntu Linux (installed on an extended partition). I created a 75 GB...