Boot Menu Problem

[multibot]

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.

 

[theog]

Did you clean the HD Drive first?
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

 

[Vertex]

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?

 

[Arc]

That is why we say to install grub in another HDD .

Download EasyBCD 2 or older from the links in the right bottom of the page Download EasyBCD 2.1.2 - NeoSmart Technologies . (versions below 2.1 are free).
Install it. Then run it. First click on "Edit Boot Menu", you will get a list of boot entries there. If there is any GRUB or Linux entry (anuthing other than Windows 7), select it, and then click the delete button. Finally save changes, and then restart your computer and see if it is still there.


If it is still there, better you follow what theog suggested .

 

[multibot]

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]

Did you clean the HD Drive first?
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

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

 

[multibot]

Did you clean the HD Drive first?
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

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]

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 .

 

[multibot]

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 .

 

[Arc]

As expected (the feature of WUBI) , there is no other partition for GRUB. So it was installed in the C drive, and removed with the formatting. but the boot entry remained there , as the System Reserved partition is not formatted. If you accept the Ubuntu option to boot, it will not load anything !

Have you installed EasyBCD ? If so, post a screenshot of EasyBCD window, with the "Edit Boot Menu" button selected in the toolbox, as I have shown in the screenshot earlier.

 

[Cookieman]

Have you checked 'msconfig' - boot options tab to see if an entry exist in there for the ubuntu install, if so you should be able to remove it.

 

[Vertex]

Yep, I also think the bootloader is on the 100MB system reserved partition. It wasn't formatted, so technically, it would still display an entry of Ubuntu.

There is an option however when I installed Linux Mint 9 to whether or not install a bootloader. I haven't tried not installing it.

 

[multibot]

As expected (the feature of WUBI) , there is no other partition for GRUB. So it was installed in the C drive, and removed with the formatting. but the boot entry remained there , as the System Reserved partition is not formatted. If you accept the Ubuntu option to boot, it will not load anything !

Have you installed EasyBCD ? If so, post a screenshot of EasyBCD window, with the "Edit Boot Menu" button selected in the toolbox, as I have shown in the screenshot earlier.

here is d screenshot bro....

 

[multibot]

bro i also forgot to told u all that i after correcting this boot menu i will be installing fedora beside this win 7, dual boot booting both.

 

[Vertex]

Fedora will probably install its own bootloader too.

 

[multibot]

hey wats dis new trouble to me..!!!!!..?????
i cant make a new volume in win 7 after i installed fedora 16 in a separate 50 gb partition.
see the screenshot below..

 

[Arc]

Multibot, using windows 7 disk, you cannot make an extra partition over four. If you want to make an extra partition, you may try Partition Wizard Free Bootable CD .

But, it is always risky to use any linux distro in the same HDD with windows7. If possible, buy another HDD and install Linux on it, with the Windows disk disconnected; so that the bootloaders may be completely separated. This is the best practice. You may choose which HDD to boot from using the boot menu key, and no dual booting is needed.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html