Boot Menu Problem

hiii alll n wish u all a belated happy new year..

i had been using win 7 ultimate x86 and ubuntu 10.10 dual booted for about last 4-5 months. i used the wubi installer to install ubuntu inside win7 in a win 7 partition. just few hrs before i have reformatted my laptop. but there stays a problem inside the boot menu.
It is showing both win 7 n ubuntu as the boot menu still now..!!!
plzz help me guys to get rid of it.
ty all.

Did you clean the HD Drive first?
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

Vertex said:

Installing Linuxes may give you booting problems. I have been using Linux. I think, it may have something to do with the Ubuntu bootloader. Do you use the Grub bootloader? Because installing this usually creates a partition that contains the Grub bootloader in what I think. Its a separate partition from the main partition which you have formatted but you left this small partition of less than 1GB is size and still continues to initiate the bootloader, showing bot Windows 7 and Ubuntu when you start the computer. You have to format this small partition as well. But reformatting this partition, might make your currently installed operating systems to be undetectable on bootup, I'm not sure about that but its only fully safe to format this partition if your laptop is completely empty, with no existing operating systems installed. But I don't think the Wubi install would install the Grub bootloader as well.

Do you have Windows 7 installed on that laptop right now? I suggest you right click My Computer on the Desktop, choose Manage and on that console, go to Disk Management and confirm if my suspicion about this partition is correct. It should be a small partition of around 900+MB in what I remember.

You did not tell how exactly you formatted your laptop. Did you format everything including Ubuntu? Is that laptop empty right now?

i didn't removed any apps nor even Ubuntu from the previous win 7. I just inserted my win 7 DVD n formatted the partition containing win 7... Its of about 50 GB in size.
I dont know exactly about what kind of partition u r talking about...but i have a partition of 100 mb named system reserved.

theog said:

Did you clean the HD Drive first?
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

All Linux code must be deleted using the CLEAN ALL command.As you have had linux on the HD you need do a Clean all & full format.


Type in command line
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK # (win HD)
CLEAN ALL
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT fs=NTFS
ASSIGN
EXIT
EXIT

theog said:

theog said:

Did you clean the HD Drive first?
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

All Linux code must be deleted using the CLEAN ALL command.As you have had linux on the HD you need do a Clean all & full format.


Type in command line
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK # (win HD)
CLEAN ALL
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT fs=NTFS
ASSIGN
EXIT
EXIT

Actually after i installed windows 7. i didn't formatted the Ubuntu partition. Since the entire linux stored in a .disk file, i simply deleted the folder named "ubuntu' where i installed it in my another windows partition.

arc said:

multibot, as you have installed linux using wubi, the linux should be installed in windows partition, like an installed program. Still, there are something suggested to you earlier like trying easybcd . It edits boot menu as i told you.

Formatting c drive will not remove the grub entry from boot, coz it will be stored in the system reserved partition. I guess you haven't formatted that partition .

You can have an easy access to system reserved and make any alteration thereto using easybcd .

Plus, if you upload a screenshot of your maximized disk management window, we may check that if grum installed anywhere else, as vertex thinks .