Dual Boot problem, Ubuntu is the main boot

[Mesh F90]

hello

I have Asus laptop with OEM Win7 HomeP 64bit on it, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 along side with Win7, didn't know that Ubuntu will be the main boot, I used Ubuntu 11.10 a year a go and Windows was my main boot, I tired several way to retrieve Win7 as main boot but didn't work.

I tried to fully recover Windows, but when finished I get black screen with "getgrub error"
now recovery doesn't work any more.

I want to get rid of Ubuntu for ever, how? without losing my genuine Win7

 

[Trinty]

Hello, Mesh F90 and welcome to Seven Forums.

First you to boot to Ubuntu 12.04 and follow this :

1. Open your Terminal.
2. Type grep menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg
3. You will got something like :
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
You will got other lines but you need this, this is last one.
4. Remember this quotes for Windows 7 (ex . "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)") (DON'T FORGOT quotes!!!) you will need it later.
5. In Terminal type this : sudo nano -B /etc/default/grub
6. You will got this :

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="delayacct"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

.... you will have more ....

7. Change GRUB_DEFAULT to value for Windows 7 from menuentry (you remembered it ) (ex. GRUB_DEFAULT="Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)") (DON'T FORGET quotes).
8. Press CTRL+X and type "y" (without quotes) to save it.
9. Important step! Type in your terminal : sudo update-grub
to save your changes

That is all and Windows 7 will be default now.

Trinty

 

[Mesh F90]

Hello, Mesh F90 and welcome to Seven Forums.

First you to boot to Ubuntu 12.04 and follow this :

1. Open your Terminal.
2. Type grep menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg
3. You will got something like :
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
You will got other lines but you need this, this is last one.
4. Remember this quotes for Windows 7 (ex . "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)") (DON'T FORGOT quotes!!!) you will need it later.
5. In Terminal type this : sudo nano -B /etc/default/grub
6. You will got this :

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="delayacct"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

.... you will have more ....

7. Change GRUB_DEFAULT to value for Windows 7 from menuentry (you remembered it ) (ex. GRUB_DEFAULT="Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)") (DON'T FORGET quotes).
8. Press CTRL+X and type "y" (without quotes) to save it.
9. Important step! Type in your terminal : sudo update-grub
to save your changes

That is all and Windows 7 will be default now.

Trinty

Thank you Thank you Thank you very very very much

It worked, Win7 is my main boot.

I did Windows recovery after it became my main boot and it worked too.

but after it finished, It said now Shutdown as usual after any recovery.

when I start up my laptop i get black screen (one like DOS window) with " getGRUB error " to come over this I need to install Ubuntu again by CD and I will go back to the same issue, i wanna get rid of ubuntu for ever

 

[Trinty]

You're welcome!

You can always use Wubi (Windows Ubuntu Installer) which installs Ubuntu as normal program like 7-zip or Winamp... Then you will have Ubuntu, and your default OS will be Windows 7 (and you can always change it from Windows) and you don't have any problem. That is best way for new users who want to try Linux

Trinty

 

[Golden]

i wanna get rid of ubuntu for ever

Hi,

Follow the steps in this tutorial:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/210983-dual-boot-delete-os.html

Regards,
Golden

 

[Mark Phelps]

...
I did Windows recovery after it became my main boot and it worked too.

When you did that, you overwrote the corrections to GRUB made previously.

You need to decide whether or not you want to keep Ubuntu on the PC -- that will determine HOW you fix this.

 

[Mesh F90]

...
I did Windows recovery after it became my main boot and it worked too.

When you did that, you overwrote the corrections to GRUB made previously.

You need to decide whether or not you want to keep Ubuntu on the PC -- that will determine HOW you fix this.

I dont want to keep Ubuntu

 

[Golden]

I dont want to keep Ubuntu

Click here

 

[Kaktussoft]

Just delete the ubuntu partitions and perform a "startup repair".

 

[gregrocker]

Mark Partition Active the Win7 or it's 100mb System Reserved partition (preferred if you have it).

Then run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times.

 

[Mesh F90]

I cant set partition as active !!!

 

[gregrocker]

Then it must be a Logical partition which can't host its own boot files. Do you have a 100mb System Reserved partition as I stated it is the preferred one to mark Active?

If this doesn't help then post back a camera snap of Partition Wizard bootable CD's drive map and listings.

 

[Mesh F90]

there u go

 

[Kaktussoft]

there u go

No grub error anymore? Delete the last 2 logical partitions and ubuntu is gone for ever.

 

[Mesh F90]

there u go

No grub error anymore? Delete the last 2 logical partitions and ubuntu is gone for ever.

are you sure than will harm my laptop boot?

 

[Kaktussoft]

there u go

No grub error anymore? Delete the last 2 logical partitions and ubuntu is gone for ever.

are you sure than will harm my laptop boot?

Your C drive is ACTIVE so it boots from it and display the bootmenu. And your running OS is C as well. You don't see any grub stuff on boot? You did a startup repair to fix the grub problem? (if so it put the win7 MBR on disk)

 

[Kaktussoft]

there u go

No grub error anymore? Delete the last 2 logical partitions and ubuntu is gone for ever.

are you sure than will harm my laptop boot?

Did you replace physical disk MBR with win7 MBR (instead of grub)?
Did you replace C "volume boot sector" with win7 bootsector (not neccesary, can't imagine why grub would be there). Anyway replace both.

Boot into recovery environment->command prompt

bootrec/fixmbr
bootrec/fixboot

Both succesfull? If so... reboot normally and delete both partitions. I'm 100% sure it will still boot

 

[muhammad36]

hi ..

can any body help me ...

i am trying to recover windows 7 i did all the steps mentioned above ....but again its booting from ubuntu ...can any body help i got this messages ...


Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-41-generic-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-41-generic-pae
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
done


but again its loading from ubuntu .....

 

[Kaktussoft]

hi ..

can any body help me ...

i am trying to recover windows 7 i did all the steps mentioned above ....but again its booting from ubuntu ...can any body help i got this messages ...


Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-41-generic-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-41-generic-pae
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
done


but again its loading from ubuntu .....

You want to get rid of ubuntu?
Post screenshot of disk management (in win7)

 

[muhammad36]

thanks for that reply ...


No i want to retain ubuntu as one of the boot option ....

how can i get screen shot of disk management ...( i mean i am not able to enter in windows 7 ) ...its directly booting to ubuntu ....