Infinite restart loop

I wiped the partition four first (but I did not touch "Linux swipe" partition). Then I tried to mark the eMachines partition active and ran the startup repair for few times with no desired result so I decided to delete everything related to Linux in the Partition Wizard (I did not wipe "Linux swipe", I just deleted it). GRUB might still be there even though I never get to see it. Is there a way to delete it? Is that what I want?

I hope someone else in the future will profit from this conversation as well!!!

EDIT: I find the information to delete GRUB here. Should I try it?

Mark the System Reserved 100mb boot partition active: Partition - Mark as Active

Then boot into the win7 DVD Repair console and run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots until it starts. Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times

dvoriner said:

EDIT: I find the information to delete GRUB here. Should I try it?

That bootsect command is automated in Startup Repair. You can certainly run it separately if necessary, though.

Here is the correct method to run Recovery: http://www.ehow.com/how_5977219_do-r...ine-disk_.html

If the Recovery Partition fails to run, try marking it Active first.

OK, so I marked the partition SYSTEM RESERVED as active and ran startup repair for three times but with no result.

Then I deleted GRUB from the command line of the Win 7 repair disc as described in your thread "Remove GRUB"... and it worked! The Win7 booted successfully.

Yesterday I did some unnecessary things - among which running the "factory recovery" so I guess I do not need the eMachines recovery now... but I will definitely keep this link as it may come handy one day.

Anyways I want to thank you a lot for your patience and great help, gregrocker and Bare Foot Kid. I hope others will take advantage of this thread as well.

Have a nice day!

If you'll post back a screenshot of your full Disk Management drive map, using Snipping Tool in Start Menu, we can look it over for any other problems.

Did your Factory Recovery partition run when you tried it earlier? Try making Recovery Disks now that you're in Windows. Or did you receive any disks with computer?

In the future, you can avoid the GRUB corruption by placing Ubuntu/Linux on another HD and booting via BIOS Boot Order and one-time BIOS Boot Menu key (F10 on eMachine).

Hi,

here is my Disk management screen shot with some translations of mine in red. I hope it makes some sense.

Yes, I ran the factory recovery from the HDD (there was no CD or DVD in the drive). I got there by typing Alt + F10 right after turning on the computer. As far as I remember the name of the program was "eMachines recovery management" or something like that...

I did not receive any CDs or DVDs with the computer. I assume that everything needed for recovery of or reinstalling Windows is in that "recovery partition" as seen in the screenshot.

OK, I will make some recovery disks as I might try to uninstall the antivirus again in the future (the original source of all trouble) :)

Thank you again, BFK and gregrocker.

Look for Recovery Media Creator in All Programs list. It will burn disks which are a bootable copy of the Recovery Partition in case HD or partition fails.

When you have Win7 set up and running best, also backup externally a Win7 Backup Image which is a more customized therefore useful backup than factory recovery. Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup