Dual Boot Boot Menu

[blue sabre]

Hi, I was experimenting with a dual boot with Win 7 and Ubuntu - the latter has now been removed from my system and the partition deleted but I still get the dual boot menu. Anyone able to advise me how to stop it doing this?

 

[iseeuu]

Hi, I was experimenting with a dual boot with Win 7 and Ubuntu - the latter has now been removed from my system and the partition deleted but I still get the dual boot menu. Anyone able to advise me how to stop it doing this?

Hello blue sabre, and welcome to Windows Seven Forums.

You can restore the Windows 7 bootmgr here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864-mbr-restore-windows-7-master-boot-record.html

Here is another link for you to look at: http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/62209-remove-grub-restore-windows-7-a.html

Let us know if you have any questions?

Cheers!
Robert

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello blue sabre.


You can also use this to remove the boot entry.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2676-bcdedit-how-use.html?ltr=B

 

[blue sabre]

Hello blue sabre.


You can also use this to remove the boot entry.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2676-bcdedit-how-use.html?ltr=B

Thanks very much guys. This one did it. I'll stop messing with thing I don't really understand now!

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Just get in the habit of creating a restore point before you "mess' with stuff, I do.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/697-system-restore-point-create.html?ltr=S

 

[blue sabre]

Just get in the habit of creating a restore point before you "mess' with stuff, I do.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/697-system-restore-point-create.html?ltr=S

Will do!

 

[jrh0]

I bought two new drives and installed Windows 7 Ultimate, using Windows disk mirror facility (C. I also had an old drive in the system that had Windows 7 RC on it (D. Upon boot, Windows Boot Mgr would give a choice of old or new Windows, as well as secondary plex. I tried a Windows System Image, and it wanted to include D:. So, I unplugged D:, but then the system wouldn't boot. I plugged D: back in, booted, changed the name of its Windows directory, and rebooted -everything worked OK, so system is in fact not using Windows directory on D:. There must be some small file on D: that needs to be on C:. How can I get rid of my dependence on D:? Will the method described earlier in the thread work? I don't care about the ability to select old operating system, but I guess I may be stuck with the boot mgr screen due to secondary plex. Main thing I want is for system to all be in C: - what's the point of mirroring if a failure of D: can still take me down?

 

[iseeuu]

I bought two new drives and installed Windows 7 Ultimate, using Windows disk mirror facility (C. I also had an old drive in the system that had Windows 7 RC on it (D. Upon boot, Windows Boot Mgr would give a choice of old or new Windows, as well as secondary plex. I tried a Windows System Image, and it wanted to include D:. So, I unplugged D:, but then the system wouldn't boot. I plugged D: back in, booted, changed the name of its Windows directory, and rebooted -everything worked OK, so system is in fact not using Windows directory on D:. There must be some small file on D: that needs to be on C:. How can I get rid of my dependence on D:? Will the method described earlier in the thread work? I don't care about the ability to select old operating system, but I guess I may be stuck with the boot mgr screen due to secondary plex. Main thing I want is for system to all be in C: - what's the point of mirroring if a failure of D: can still take me down?

Hello jrho, and welcome.

The Windows 7 installer will place the boot code on whatever "Active" partition it finds. It would seem that the 7 RC hard drive was the "Active" drive (or partition) so when you unplug it you cannot boot.

I have not installed 7 in a raid configuration, so I cannot say for certain how raid will react, but you can try marking the new Windows 7 install "Active", then boot to your 7 DVD (unplug the 7 RC drive also) and run the "Startup Repair" two or three times to restore booting to 7.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

There are other options as well.

Cheers!
Robert

 

[jrh0]

Please forgive my ignorance, but I am not given an option to make C: "Active" , I assume because the mirrored drive set is not partitioned - or, perhaps I should say, it's all one partition. MS says every drive can only have one active partition, so if you only have one, perhaps it's active by default and can't be modified.

I'll try the repair some more!

 

[gaz]

dual boot

Hi, I was experimenting with a dual boot with Win 7 and Ubuntu - the latter has now been removed from my system and the partition deleted but I still get the dual boot menu. Anyone able to advise me how to stop it doing this?

type msconfig in search box, then the boot tab ,click on ubuntu(if its there ) then delete it,restart your pc

 

[iseeuu]

Please forgive my ignorance, but I am not given an option to make C: "Active" , I assume because the mirrored drive set is not partitioned - or, perhaps I should say, it's all one partition. MS says every drive can only have one active partition, so if you only have one, perhaps it's active by default and can't be modified.

I'll try the repair some more!

Then we share that ignorance, because I do not know if MS will allow you to mark a RAID configuration active after it has been created? Just another reason I don't want RAID and its complications on my system when the Windows 7 Image Backup utility is so easy to use.

Please let us know what you learn, and whether you have to reinstall Ultimate after marking the Drives "Active"?

Cheers!
Robert