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Gateway recovery disk not repairing mbr
First, sorry for punctuation and grammar. I am writing this on my phone holding my daughter rocking in a chair.
I have a gateway P79 series gaming laptop. It came with no recovery disks, so I had to burn my own when it asked me in Windows. I have Windows 7 premium 64. I for a while chose to use linux instead, and erased my windows partition, and the mbr got converted to grub for Ubuntu.
I am now choosing to go back to Windows 7 with the repair disks. Even though I burned them myself through Windows, they are branded Gateway in the interface. I did the complete recovery option in the disk, but it did not remove the grub from linux in the mbr and replace it with windows bootloader. I am now doing a repair, but it is not like the ones I have seen on the web. I don't get to choose partitions, or select anything. I don't have the option to repair really, just do a restore and backup my personal folders while it does that. I suspect this wont repair the mbr either. I have no other computer to plug this internal laptop hd into. Any ideas on how I can fix the mbr without a command prompt? Like a boot program I can put on my thumb drive to fix it? Thanks.