General :: Removed Ubuntu - Can't Get Windows To Load Now?
May 9, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10 over the weekend at the request of a friend. Unfortunately it doesn't work for everything that i use my system for daily. So i called my friend and asked him how to remove it. He told me to boot to the cd and delete the partitions and then use the windows cd to fix the master boot record. Piece of cake, until I deleted the partitions and remembered Windows 7 doesn't have a recovery console to repair the boot record....
So now I'm stuck with my computer booting up and showing a grub rescue> prompt and nothing else. I called my friend and all he said was way to go, you're screwed now. Is there a way to fix this without losing everything in my windows installation?
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Jul 3, 2010
I used Windows to reformat my Ubuntu partition and now I can't boot anything. What's the best way to recover my netbook? I'm only able to use a 256 MB flash drive.
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Sep 2, 2010
I have recently purchased a new laptop, which came with Windows 7 pre-installed. I immediately installed Ubuntu alongside it with a dual boot. At first it worked fine, but when I restarted after the first time I used Windows, I ended up with an 'Operating system not found' error. I was able to reinstall the Grub bootloader using an Ubuntu Live CD, which appeared to fix the problem, but the next time I loaded Windows 7 and rebooted, the problem reappeared I think the problem is that Windows 7, for whatever reason, is somehow removing or disabling Grub.
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Mar 25, 2011
I am a ubuntu novice. I am running 10.04 LTS on a Lenova laptop. Runs fine. Yesterday upgraded firefox and upgraded Java 6 from update 20 to update 24 so that I could use the Zotero bibiliographic program in FF. After the upgrade and restart, the windows title bar that includes minimize, maximize and close buttons has disappeared from all windows that I open except google chrome. If I open and app, or FF, or the dvd player, title bar is gone. I have noticed that Java updates have caused similar problems before but none of the prescribed steps seems to have changed my system
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Oct 24, 2010
I've had my laptop dual-boot with Ubuntu 10.03 and W7 for some time, and all has (mostly) been OK. Unfortunately, my windows installation was an upgrade from Vista, and always a bit of a pig's 4rse, so I deleted the partition and reinstalled it cleanly.
But now I no longer get a list of boot options, so I can't boot into Ubuntu.
Its partition is still there OK... I can get the dual-boot back...
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Sep 1, 2011
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron. On boot I get the GRUB menu listing Ubuntu (+ old versions) and Windows 7. However, if I boot Windows 7 all is fine until I reboot. On this next boot GRUB is gone and Windows boots. Ubuntu is still there, I can get into using my live-cd and 'repair' GRUB. After that, on booting GRUB is back and fine (including Windows 7). Does any one have an idea how to fix the booting/GRUB thing more constructive?
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May 17, 2011
Just installed Slackware 13.37 and am trying to get dual boot to work properly. I have edited /etc/lilo.conf to point the Windows section to what I believe should be the correct partition (/dev/sda2) Here is the relevant section
Code:
# LILO configuration file
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda2
[code]....
I have mounted /dev/sda2 to /ntfs-c as suggested during install and when I browse through there I see the files from my windows setup so it is in fact the correct partition. When I load Windows on boot, however, it is pointing to the recovery partition (/dev/sda1).
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Aug 27, 2010
i have windows xp operating system yesterday i installed ubuntu9.10 dual boot when the grub gets loaded it gives me four options as follows
1) linux......
2) linux......recovery...
3) mem test...
4) windows...
when 1) linux is selected it loads ubuntu properly but. but when i select 4) windows a black page with GRUB written on the top left corner of the page is displayed and will not take any command... the only option i can do is hardboot.
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Feb 3, 2016
I've been using Debian for a few years but always on dedicated boxes and/or VMs.
Finally decided to dual boot Debian and Windows on my main Desktop PC.
Installed as I normally would using, however this time using a seperate drive (one for the existing Windows 10 install and the other for Debian), Debian install detects that windows has an EFI partition and sticks an entry in there, which is fair enough, and everything working fine. Then I spent some time configuring all my software and set it all up just the way I like it. I've rebooted Debian a few times to check it's working correctly and it is.
The issue arrives when I reboot and load into Windows 10. It boots fine.
However after a further reboot GRUB no longer loads... and the machine just boots directly into Windows 10.
After doing some further digging into my EFI partition (and reinstalling various times) it would appear that after a reboot Windows 10 deletes the entry GRUB creates in my EFI partition after EVERY reboot.
Done some googling and most people advise turning off 'fast boot' in Windows as it locks certain partitions to facilitate the machine going into hibernation, only to find that it's always been turned off on my machine (I recall due to a driver issue with my graphics card this had to be turned off when I installed Windows 10).
I've found this article on the Ubuntu forums : [URL] .... however I've tried their steps and windows is still doing a hostile takeover of my EFI partion after a reboot!
Any way to stop Windows 10 from interfering with my EFI files after a reboot? (without doing the obvious thing and kill Windows off).
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Jun 24, 2011
I've been having trouble with CUPS.I uninstalled it and I wanted to re-install it. When I removed CUPS some other files were removed too. I don't have an option of installing the software or updating a system, in the Control Center.
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Mar 25, 2011
what are all the options dos- ect! to format a HD. for the Linux platform is there not a way to load Linux out side of a Windows program .
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Mar 21, 2011
i have just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a pre installed windows 7 system. Ubuntu is working really well but the only problem is that when I try to boot into windows,
I get the windows sign and then I get a black screen and windows does not load. It seems to be an easy problem to solve because I can actually boot windows 7 in
safe mode with no problems at all! The problem is there when I try to boot windows 7 normally. To be honest I only need windows for a project that uses MSQL server.
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Jan 28, 2011
My set up is a dual boot between windows 7 and ubuntu 10.04. This laptop used to have vista on it. See image below for my partition set up. pretty obvious where ubuntu should be.I accidentally selected the wrong entry in grub and booted into an acer windows recovery partition. despite exiting as soon as it loaded, the long story short is that it has goodbyed linux.On booting i now just get a grub rescue prompt.I have eventually managed to boot into a liveUSB (cd drive is botched too )As you can see from the screenpic, testdisk shows linux is still there but there are quite a few entries from the upgrades.So, if i can restore the partition around this linux partition will grub come back with it and will all be merry?
I havent mounted any volumes on the drive yet, but i think i need to back up my data before messing with the partition table. is it cool to mount them to pull some data off?general advice for how to proceed would be great.Im not too hung up on keeping the linux install itself. whats gunna be easier? install into that 16gb space and then re add windows to grub, or try and recover this partition?
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Apr 6, 2011
A colleague of mine was studying at the University of Vienna and saw an application which was based on linux whereby other pc's booted from it and if on the server they had set it to force a clean install on that PC it would download and install a windows image. Does anyone know of the app or could point me in the direction of a similar app.
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Jan 9, 2009
I accidently removed bottom panel of suse 11.1.Please be so kind to help me to get it back my bottom panel.
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Aug 26, 2010
I must have missed the memo and was just curious why the Thanks button was removed? Or was this just an effort to make us type it in now? (not that I mind )
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Jun 8, 2010
By accident, I used rm on a file I didn't want to delete. Is there any way that I can get it back under Linux?
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Jun 23, 2011
OS: RHEL / CentOS If I use "yum" to add / erase packages, OS will log the info to file /var/log/yum.log.
But if use "rpm -e" to remove a package, there is no related log file to show which rpm package got earsed. I have to run "rpm -qa > /tmp/$TIME", and then diff the /tmp/$TIME file to get the difference.
Is there is command to show the erased packages (erased by using rpm -e)?
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Jan 25, 2010
I've just joined this LQ forum as I couldn't find my answer on the web.
I am trying to find if there is a way to check/find out what packages were removed. In other words, I am looking for the history of packages that were ever removed.
I already know how to find what packages were installed using <rpm -qa> command, but it doesn't tell what has been REMOVED.
For example, how do I know if the <gcc> package was ever installed before, and when it was removed?
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Mar 5, 2011
I want to remove all java packages icedtea open jdk jre and also relevent firefox plugins and reinstall latest jre with fresh firefox plugin.
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Apr 14, 2011
By mistake i deleted imp folder which as certain imp files created, so i want to reterive it ? is it possible by using any specific linux commands only
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Nov 8, 2010
i just reinstalled linux on partition (ubuntu) and i remember last time i did it i was able to set windows as default load and with a timer so that after 3 seconds windows would load and not ubuntu default right now is ubuntu load after 10 seconds.
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Dec 18, 2010
so after i managed to install ubunut x64 my Windows 7 will not load...
my partition table looks like this:
Partition File System size
/dev/sda1 ntfs 100.00 MiB
/dev/sda2 ntfs 445.66 GiB
/dev/sda3 extended 20.00 GiB
/dev/sda5 ext4 19.12 GiB
/dev/sda6 unknown(swap?) 895.00 MiB
unallocated unallocated 1.02 MiB
currently I was using GParted to find this out. I think the Grub boot loader is pointing to the wrong partition for windows. This is because a few months back I had an uncessesful atempt to install ubuntu w/o grub and tried to use the windows boot loader.
I then realized that it did not work, so I was able to fix it using My Windows 7 recovery tools. So in Grub should it be pointing to /dev/sda1 for windows or /dev/sda2 ?
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Jan 17, 2011
I was having problems with a video driver for ubuntu 10.10 64 bit so decided to try and down grade to 32 bit.I kind of carelessly just deleted the ubuntu partition with Gparted thinking that worse case scenario I would still have access to windows 7, since I was running a dual boot. This was a terrible idea and I ran into a bunch of problems. I managed to reinstall ubuntu and it runs fine. However when I try to load windows 7 it justs loops back to the grub screen. Trying to avoid reinstalling everything to get a proper boot
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May 16, 2011
i installed ubuntu / under /dev/sda1, then installed Win7 under /dev/sda2, as primary. Extended partition and its logicals are for data.
After Win7 installation, i can restore the grub2 for ubuntu, with grub-install and update-grub2. It can even probe the NTFS partition under /dev/sda2. But at restart, when i tried to go to Win7 selection, it does nothing, screen goes black, blank, with a single cursor blinking.
Some data:
Ubuntu Natty 11.04
From /etc/grub/grub.cfg:
Code:
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos2)'
[Code].....
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May 22, 2011
ve got this issue.The history of this notebook is:came up with windows vista preinstalled with a recovery partition.Installed windows 7 without removing the vista recovery partition. While doing this partitioned the hd in this way:
/dev/sda1 recovery
/dev/sda2 windows 7
/dev/sda3 backup space (ntfs)
[code]...
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Jul 2, 2010
I have accidentally removed my apache2 startup file /etc/init.d/apache2 using rm /etc/init.d/apache2 command.
How can I get that back?
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Aug 25, 2011
Consider the following:
mount | grep home
type reiserfs
rm -Rf /home/user/over_9000_little_and_big_super_secret_files/
# oops, I should have shredded it instead.
How can I properly and securely "initialize free space" to ensure that no additional info can be restored restored by digging in free space (Preferrably without stopping or disturbing the filesystem much.) Is dd if=/dev/frandom of=/home/qqqqq really secure for this (tails, journal, etc.)?
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Jan 31, 2010
I recently had a problem with one and only one user on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system.
[URL]
The user who installed Ubuntu eventually could not log into the desktop (Gnome) without getting a small X-term appearing in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. I have since fixed the problem by reinstalling and using frequent logouts and reboots to see if the original problem could be re-created.
Other users, most of whom were also admin who could use sudo and were created after the installing user, could log into Gnome just fine. The installing user was fully deleted and re-created (home directory) and not installed with its backed up information. This still did not fix the problem.
My question is this. What could be left behind and possibly in which files by the installing user that would still affect this user even after that user was completely removed and re-created?
The only thing I have not done on the re-installation, is I have not installed Konqueror. I have installed konsole, which installs some KDE components, and that was done the first time.
I don't want to install Konqueror and have the same problem occur again at least without a place to look, so I don't have to re-install. I did make the classic mistake of not looking in the logs, specifically xsession errors. I won't make that mistake again.
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May 23, 2010
I have Windows 7 as my main OS on the C drive, Ubuntu 10.4 as the second OS on my D drive. I installed Ubuntu from outside Win7, not through the Wubi, so I had to format the D drive, change the file system into ext4 so I ended up not seeing the D drive anymore on Win7.
My first question is, how can I get the Windows booter load first?My second question is, if I want to remove Ubuntu, how do I get back my D drive?
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