Grub Loader

[Alboguy]

A few weeks ago I installed Ububtu in my friends laptop. But he didn't like it so I had to remove it. So I deleted the Ububtu partitons (root and swap) with GParted and joined them to the backup partition where my friend keeps his data. Win 7 was preinstalled with 2 partitions (system and backup and of course the 100mb partition with the loader inside I think). But when I restarted the laptop it showed me this message: Loading Grub...No such partition found. I fixed the problem by repairing Win 7 with the boot cd. But I keep wondering:

In what partition was installed the Grub Loader ???

[hellnoire]

The GRUB (Notice, all caps, as that's how it should be written) Bootloader was installed on your MBR (Master Boot Record) which then queried to see where Linux was, as it was technically booting Linux first.

So to sum it up the easiest way, it was on your Linux partition. Because you deleted it, it was trying to boot to it still and just not able to find it.

[Alboguy]

Ok thanks!! But what do I have to do to avoid this message? Do I have to format Linux Partition then delete it?

[hellnoire]

What you have to do to avoid this message is restore the bootloader of choice.

Depends on the OS on how to do so, but I'm assuming it's XP, Vista, or Windows 7 you're restoring the MBR to. You'll have to slap in the OS's CD and boot to the recovery install/Repair Install screens of the respective OSes, and open the command prompt in Vista and 7. Then, type the following:

In XP,

fixmbr

In Vista,

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

In 7,

bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr

Now, if I could tell you why they never kept the command the same among the three OSes, I'd be rich and famous right now

[kv777]

i had this problem before,fixing the bootloader with windows disk should work.

[hellnoire]

It would work, since GRUB's just a boot loader, nothing more.

[Alboguy]

What you have to do to avoid this message is restore the bootloader of choice.

Depends on the OS on how to do so, but I'm assuming it's XP, Vista, or Windows 7 you're restoring the MBR to. You'll have to slap in the OS's CD and boot to the recovery install/Repair Install screens of the respective OSes, and open the command prompt in Vista and 7. Then, type the following:

In XP,

fixmbr

In Vista,

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

In 7,

bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr

Now, if I could tell you why they never kept the command the same among the three OSes, I'd be rich and famous right now

Thanks dude!! You're really a linux guru

[hellnoire]

Hahaha, I've learned from my mistakes, and sometimes, I've had to go back to Windows for something or another.