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| Thread ID: 111226 | 2010-07-19 01:48:00 | Remove Windows 7 bootloader from storage hard drives | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 1119984 | 2010-07-19 01:48:00 | Once upon a time I installed Windows 7, and had to use startup recovery to fix it (can't remember why) Might not seem such a bad thing but for some reason it put the bootloader not just on the system drive but also on my two 1TB storage drives for some reason (most likely because Microsoft in their infinite stupidity decided to give you absolutely no choice as to where it sticks anything) Anyway, I now have an issue when I install Linux, it detects 2 extra Windows 7 installations which don't exist and adds them to Grub. How do I get rid of the bootloader\boot sector\whatever from these 2 drives and stop everything thinking they contain Windows 7? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1119985 | 2010-07-19 05:25:00 | How To: Remove Windows 7 Bootloader Boot off XP 1. Recovery Console 2. Fixboot 3. Fixmbr |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1119986 | 2010-07-19 06:01:00 | Won't that write the XP bootloader to them instead? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1119987 | 2010-07-19 10:59:00 | ...How do I get rid of the bootloader\boot sector\whatever from these 2 drives and stop everything thinking they contain Windows 7? MBRtool might do the job. www.diydatarecovery.nl |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 1119988 | 2010-07-23 02:49:00 | I ended up using DISKPART to mark the partitions as inactive (I think this was the main problem) Then I booted Ubuntu and deleted the Boot directory and bootmgr file (Windows wouldn't let me) After that I performed a kernel upgrade in Ubuntu and it did not find the 2 non-existent Windows 7 installations! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1119989 | 2010-07-23 02:56:00 | EasyBCD may have fixed it. But thats for windows | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1119990 | 2010-07-23 02:58:00 | Handy to know Agent 24. | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1119991 | 2010-07-23 06:10:00 | EasyBCD may have fixed it. But thats for windows I tried that before I posted here, it doesn't work, because the rogue bootloaders weren't known to Windows 7 itself. I think EasyBCD is just a GUI for BCDEDIT, and BCDEDIT didn't know they existed either, so it couldn't remove them (it only shows up the real Win 7 and XP) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1119992 | 2010-07-23 07:05:00 | Why not simply remove them from the grub config? Edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst (also sometimes known as /boot/grub/grub.conf), and remove the sections related to the nonexistent Windows installs. These sections will usually be near the bottom of the file, and will be very easy to identify - they're labelled with a 'title' line. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1119993 | 2010-07-23 07:50:00 | Next kernel update would just bring them back again, and I'd have to keep doing it. Besides, if the PC then decides to try and boot from one of those drives it'll hang at some boot error. Now, the BIOS just skips to the next drive because it's not active. |
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