Solved Win7 desktop turns black after installing Ubuntu?

[Deliphin11]

Before I say anything, I should note I have already asked the people on the Ubuntu Forums, they recommended me to go here as they didn't know how to fix it, and because the problem was on Win7 and not Ubuntu.
I'm not sure if this is the right spot on the forums, but it seemed the closest to me, as the desktop backround is just a graphical object.
Now to the actual problem: Before any of this happened, my backround ran fine. I installed Ubuntu via the Windows installer, and I restarted my computer. Standard boot, I had Win7 and Ubuntu for choices, chose Ubuntu, and found steam didn't install right on Ubuntu. So I asked a friend who already had Ubuntu, and he told me to reinstall via disc, because he had a lot of problems with the Windows Installer. So I ran the uninstall.exe on Ubuntu's folder in C:/Ubuntu/, then installed via disc. Got steam, it finished fine, was able to chat. I had to go back to Win7 to finish a few things that I could only access on Win7. When I turned on my computer, the boot list for Win7 and Ubuntu was a bit different. Odd color, and at the top it said "GRUB". When I loaded up Win7, the backround wasn't working. I waited for a few minutes thinking it was a load up only glitch, but it stayed, even after a restart. So I went to the Ubuntu Forums to ask them.

HardDrive: 538GB For Win7, approx 400GB for Ubuntu. (911GB For windows before Ubuntu Installation.)
Video Card: Radeon HD5450.
OS's: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, Ubuntu 12.10.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Stange thing is happening. you see grub as bootmgr?Then you select win7 and see win7 starting animation?

 

[Kaktussoft]

So I ran the uninstall.exe on Ubuntu's folder in C:/Ubuntu/
=>So you installed Ubuntu form within WIN7? Is ubuntu installed on his own seperate partition?

 

[Deliphin11]

Stange thing is happening. you see grub as bootmgr?Then you select win7 and see win7 starting animation?

Yes.

 

[Deliphin11]

So I ran the uninstall.exe on Ubuntu's folder in C:/Ubuntu/
=>So you installed Ubuntu form within WIN7? Is ubuntu installed on his own seperate partition?

Yes, Disc is different than Windows Installer. Windows Installer basically runs it without separated partitions, and sort of acts like a program more than an OS, with how its files are almost all contained inside C:/Ubuntu/, where disc version doesn't do that. I kinda like em unseparated, don't have to worry about how much I'll use in the future. Or at least not as much.
EDIT: Disc Version, I should mention, is on its own separate partition.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Did you install on C or on seperate partition. You tell me you install it as a normal progam so on C. But then you don't have grub! So I'm confused.

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

 

[Kaktussoft]

Before I say anything, I should note I have already asked the people on the Ubuntu Forums, they recommended me to go here as they didn't know how to fix it, and because the problem was on Win7 and not Ubuntu.
I'm not sure if this is the right spot on the forums, but it seemed the closest to me, as the desktop backround is just a graphical object.
Now to the actual problem: Before any of this happened, my backround ran fine. I installed Ubuntu via the Windows installer, and I restarted my computer. Standard boot, I had Win7 and Ubuntu for choices, chose Ubuntu, and found steam didn't install right on Ubuntu. So I asked a friend who already had Ubuntu, and he told me to reinstall via disc, because he had a lot of problems with the Windows Installer. So I ran the uninstall.exe on Ubuntu's folder in C:/Ubuntu/, then installed via disc. Got steam, it finished fine, was able to chat. I had to go back to Win7 to finish a few things that I could only access on Win7. When I turned on my computer, the boot list for Win7 and Ubuntu was a bit different. Odd color, and at the top it said "GRUB". When I loaded up Win7, the backround wasn't working. I waited for a few minutes thinking it was a load up only glitch, but it stayed, even after a restart. So I went to the Ubuntu Forums to ask them.

HardDrive: 538GB For Win7, approx 400GB for Ubuntu. (911GB For windows before Ubuntu Installation.)
Video Card: Radeon HD5450.
OS's: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, Ubuntu 12.10.

It looks like you have GRUB in MBR as bootmgr (or in partition bootsector).

 

[Deliphin11]

Did you install on C or on seperate partition. You tell me you install it as a normal progam so on C. But then you don't have grub! So I'm confused.

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

It's installed on C:, but as two partitions on the drive. Reread the post, I said I initially installed as the windows installer version, uninstalled that, and got the Disc version, which gave me Grub.

 

[Deliphin11]

Before I say anything, I should note I have already asked the people on the Ubuntu Forums, they recommended me to go here as they didn't know how to fix it, and because the problem was on Win7 and not Ubuntu.
I'm not sure if this is the right spot on the forums, but it seemed the closest to me, as the desktop backround is just a graphical object.
Now to the actual problem: Before any of this happened, my backround ran fine. I installed Ubuntu via the Windows installer, and I restarted my computer. Standard boot, I had Win7 and Ubuntu for choices, chose Ubuntu, and found steam didn't install right on Ubuntu. So I asked a friend who already had Ubuntu, and he told me to reinstall via disc, because he had a lot of problems with the Windows Installer. So I ran the uninstall.exe on Ubuntu's folder in C:/Ubuntu/, then installed via disc. Got steam, it finished fine, was able to chat. I had to go back to Win7 to finish a few things that I could only access on Win7. When I turned on my computer, the boot list for Win7 and Ubuntu was a bit different. Odd color, and at the top it said "GRUB". When I loaded up Win7, the backround wasn't working. I waited for a few minutes thinking it was a load up only glitch, but it stayed, even after a restart. So I went to the Ubuntu Forums to ask them.

HardDrive: 538GB For Win7, approx 400GB for Ubuntu. (911GB For windows before Ubuntu Installation.)
Video Card: Radeon HD5450.
OS's: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, Ubuntu 12.10.

It looks like you have GRUB in MBR as bootmgr (or in partition bootsector).

Would disabling it fix my desktop? And if so, how would I disable it?

 

[Kaktussoft]

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

 

[Deliphin11]

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

Hey, I might not have to do that. I just noticed that when I load up Win7, i get an error in the bottom right about a corrupt file.
Location: Users/Customer/Appdata/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Themes/TranscodedWallpaper.jpg
It says that file is corrupt and to run a chkdsk or something like that. What do you think?

 

[Mark Phelps]

If you don't already have one, first thing I would do is use the Backup feature to create and burn a Win7 Repair CD. That will allow you to repair Windows boot problems easily.

As to the wallpaper, if the default image file is corrupted, it's likely that you will get the results you see. I would go into the desktop and just pick any other wallpaper to see what happens. IF that fixes it, you will need to get a new copy of that wallpaper file.

 

[Deliphin11]

If you don't already have one, first thing I would do is use the Backup feature to create and burn a Win7 Repair CD. That will allow you to repair Windows boot problems easily.

As to the wallpaper, if the default image file is corrupted, it's likely that you will get the results you see. I would go into the desktop and just pick any other wallpaper to see what happens. IF that fixes it, you will need to get a new copy of that wallpaper file.

I don't really care about the boot thing as long as my desktop backround works, I only brought it up cause on UbuntuForums, one guy said the two could be related. I tried moving the file (not delete, so if it screwed something up, I could fix it easy.) and it said:
An unexpected error is keeping you from moving the file. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.
Error 0x80070570: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
Same error if I try to delete it. And if I try to replace it, I get the same error.

 

[Mark Phelps]

You would need to change the default background before you try to replace the file.

Did you try selecting a new backgound to see if that worked? You didn't say what you did.

If the changed background works OK, one way to get around Windows not letting you mess with the corrupted file is to do what I have done -- boot from an Ubuntu LiveCD or LiveUSB, mount the Windows partition, use a file manager to locate the corrupted file -- and delete it from there.

 

[Deliphin11]

You would need to change the default background before you try to replace the file.

Did you try selecting a new backgound to see if that worked? You didn't say what you did.

If the changed background works OK, one way to get around Windows not letting you mess with the corrupted file is to do what I have done -- boot from an Ubuntu LiveCD or LiveUSB, mount the Windows partition, use a file manager to locate the corrupted file -- and delete it from there.

I did try to select a new backround, first thing I did, shoulda mentioned that I guess. It didn't work. Also, for some reason, my Ubuntu has access to the windows partition. Like, it can access files like my Windows Desktop.

 

[Deliphin11]

It seemed to fix itself. odd.