My Bios Boot Order Menu Has An Item Called "Ubuntu"

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  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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    My Bios Boot Order Menu Has An Item Called "Ubuntu"


    Hi Guys,

    I recently tried to install Linux Ubuntu but it didin't work well. So I deleted all the partitions and made a clean windows 7 install. Everything works just fine. Before the windows installation there was a weird bootloader starts at first. Here's the picture. After I installed windows I looked at my bios settings and in the boot menu I still had Ubuntu. I used recovery cd and did a console command which is "bootsect /nt60 all". But it is still there. How can I delete this without doing any formatting, reinstalling.

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  2. Posts : 1,781
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
       #2

    Hello ExpDisease,

    are you sure the screenshot is from your BIOS? It looks to me like a bootloader left over from Ubuntu that's running before Windows 7's own bootloader.

    You might try the bootsect /nt60 all /mbr command (with the added /mbr option) to actually rewrite the MBR as well, but I'm not sure that'll really do the job.

    Just to get a better picture of things, could you also take a snapshot of your (maximized) Disk Management window and post it here?
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  3. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #3

    Is there a option to delete the boot menu entry?
    You may need to check your uEFI BIOS manual.
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  4. Posts : 1,996
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #4

    Use EasyBCD, "Edit Boot Menu" to delete left over entries.
    http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
    The free version download link is at the bottom of the page.
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  5. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #5

    Sardonicus said:
    Use EasyBCD, "Edit Boot Menu" to delete left over entries.
    Download EasyBCD 2.1.1 - NeoSmart Technologies
    The free version download link is at the bottom of the page.
    FAQ - EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki

    Does EasyBCD have EFI support?

    No, not yet.
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  6. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Corazon said:
    Hello ExpDisease,

    are you sure the screenshot is from your BIOS? It looks to me like a bootloader left over from Ubuntu that's running before Windows 7's own bootloader.

    You might try the bootsect /nt60 all /mbr command (with the added /mbr option) to actually rewrite the MBR as well, but I'm not sure that'll really do the job.

    Just to get a better picture of things, could you also take a snapshot of your (maximized) Disk Management window and post it here?
    Nope that's the bootloader but I don't think it's a ubuntu bootloader. The bios order menu is the same as that picture. It says shift + 1 to disable an item but it doesn't work. I can't resize the disk management window if I do only resizing trails are appearing. I don't have any other hdd so it doesn't matter anyway. I tried the bootsect command now but it didin't work. I think I should set computer to factory settings but I will lose everything. By the way easyBCD only sees windows 7..

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  7. Posts : 89
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #7

    That doesn't look like the normal grub (or grub2) menu (the boot loader/menu installed with ubuntu). But I never heard of ubuntu changing the BIOS boot menu...

    Can you reset your BIOS to defaults?

    Edit: what do you see if you disconnect the hard drive and turn on the machine?
    Last edited by flemur13013; 24 Nov 2011 at 14:31.
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  8. Posts : 1,781
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
       #8

    I'm not surprised EasyBCD only sees Windows 7 - because I didn't think the Ubuntu boot menu was part of the boot entries stored in Windows 7's own boot manager.

    Still not quite clear on whether this is a boot loader that runs after the BIOS completes startup but before Windows starts booting, or if you're really saying it's a BIOS-provided boot menu.

    That would surprise me as much as flemur13013...
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  9. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #9

    I load my setup default for bios but it didin't change. This is so interesting. I installed linux distros couple of thousand times but never seen anything like this. Maybe samsung motherboard works like this
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  10. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #10

    Is there a option to move the boot menu entry Ubnuntu? If yes.
    Try moving to entry No 4.
    You may need to check your uEFI BIOS manual.
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