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Idiot Mistake - Please help

kinggeorge1987kinggeorge1987 Member Posts: 62 ■■□□□□□□□□
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Hey everyone,

Well last night I was bored and was reading some articles about Ubuntu. I tried it, didn't like it. So I used Computer Manager via Windows 7 and deleted the partition it was installed on. Apparently it changed my drive letter from C: to D:

Now when I try and boot up I get an no partition found in a command screen, followed by

grub rescue>

What can I do to get it to boot windows again ? I've looked through the CMOS and cant find any settings to help. I have no idea what to do at all.
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    Bert McGertBert McGert Member Posts: 122
    Here you go: Let me google that for you
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    chmorinchmorin Member Posts: 1,446 ■■■■■□□□□□
    I'm not sure what the above posted but you uninstalled ubuntu without getting rid of grub, and grub requires a linux platform to be seen for it to run properly by default. So you boot into grub and gub crashes.

    The best way to fix it is to reinstall linux, remove grub, remove linux, then you should be able to boot into windows.

    This is what happened to me, anyway.

    Also, if you cant figure out how to remove grub, installing ubuntu again will give you the option to boot into either ubuntu or Windows 7 again from grub.
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    kinggeorge1987kinggeorge1987 Member Posts: 62 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Bert McGert wrote: »
    Here you go: Let me google that for you

    Gee, wish I would have thought of that. Sarcastic much ? Im aware of Google. And I've already fixed it, no thanks to your Google :)
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    chmorinchmorin Member Posts: 1,446 ■■■■■□□□□□
    kinggeorge1987 wrote: »
    Gee, wish I would have thought of that. Sarcastic much ? Im aware of Google. And I've already fixed it, no thanks to your Google :)

    What did you do?
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    Bert McGertBert McGert Member Posts: 122
    Sarcastic much?

    No, never. Don't care for it. ;)
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    chmorinchmorin Member Posts: 1,446 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Bert McGert wrote: »
    No, never. Don't care for it. ;)

    There's a man who speaks the truth. icon_wink.gif:)
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Just boot off the Windows 7 disc, and it will detect and repair problems (replace grup with its bootloader) with your installation.
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    kinggeorge1987kinggeorge1987 Member Posts: 62 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Bert McGert wrote: »
    No, never. Don't care for it. ;)

    A man much like myself :).

    Anyway, I tried the repair diagnostic tools, several of them. What I ended up doing was installing windows over the corrupted installation, it put all of my data into a Windows.old. After that I managed to use the startup repair tool again and it recovered the old installation from the Windows.old folder. I still couldn't get it to boot -said the NLS was corrupt, so I attempted bootrec.exe /repairbcd with no success - so I just went through and grabbed my downloads folder along with other important files of mine and moved them to the new installation and deleted the secondary OS. Probably not the smartest way to handle it but I've never encountered problems like this before so I just handled it the best way I could.
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    bermovickbermovick Member Posts: 1,135 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I dunno about windows 7, but you used to be able to just 'fdisk /mbr' from the install disk/rescue mode or something.
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    leefdaddyleefdaddy Member Posts: 405
    bermovick wrote: »
    I dunno about windows 7, but you used to be able to just 'fdisk /mbr' from the install disk/rescue mode or something.

    yeah this is what I was going to recommend... fdisk /mbr, Dynamik's suggestion should work as well. Should be easy to fix.
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