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Then wipe the HD and Clean Reinstall as given.
If problems persist work through the Troubleshooting steps.
Exactly how was the HD wiped of boot code from GRUB?
If you had GRUB on the HD then it needs wiping with Diskpart Clean Command as advised earlier. Use the Command Line in System Recovery Options .
You reply that you've already wiped the HD so I wanted to know how you wiped it.
This is an interactive process whereby we give you steps which you complete and report back, then we give you more steps if necessary. But no steps can be skipped.
the last time grub was on the system I booted gparted and formatted all partition then deleted them and made a new partition table. since then i've booted linux off a usb drive
That's why I've given you the Diskpart Clean Command (twice now) since formatting does nothing useful to overcome GRUB or other corruption. You need to overwrite the boot sector code with zeroes.
Are you not able to back up data externally first? You can get 25gb free storage right now on Skydrive with each Windows Live ID.
Joncy, if you had GRUB on the HD you should wipe it with Diskpart first.
Then boot the Win7 installer, use Custom install Drive Options to make the Win7 and your data partitions the size and position you want.
After install copy your User folders from external back up into the data partition, rightclick on each to link them to the related Library - Include a Folder - Windows 7 Forums.
This is by far the easiest method to do this and avoid potential issues with linking the actual shell User folders to another partition. Just remember to place files in the library listing for the data partition and occasionally drag any files that have fallen into the OS partition User folders over into the data partition from within the related library.
For Downloads you'll need to create the Library during the rightlick linking process.
If you want to move the actual shell User folders to data partition then use this method: User Folders - Change Default Location. However you may find unfixable permissioning and other issues as have I and others.