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I have a problem booting ubuntu 9.10 after removing a disk drive that had windows 7 on it from my PC. Below is a run down of what happened.My system is MSI based MB with 3 IDE drives and DVD-writer on Primary and Secondary IDE channels.The MB also has a FASTTRACK SATA/IDE controller that I occasionally use to attach another disk for trial/backup purposes. (main backup is to external USB storage)For some time I have DUAL booted with grub2 with ubuntu 9.10 and windows XP all fine and no problems. Use ubuntu as its quick and easy on my old PC. XP for some legacy apps.As I had a spare IDE drive I thought I'd give a Windows 7 a trial. The Drive is attached to the FASTTRACK IDE controller and windows 7 installed with NO OTHER drives attached.

All OK so far!Reattached my other drives and could boot into ubuntu/XP as required. Ran sudo update-grub which found new windows 7 Ok! So for the last month I was happily play/using all 3 OS booting from grub2 loader as required.Windows 7 30 day trail has now expired so no longer of any use to me. So I decided to remove windows 7Here's what I did:..........1st: Just unplugged the disk drive with windows 7 on it! XP boots OK but ubuntu fails to boot! 2nd: Re-attached the windows 7 drive and wiped with ubuntu disk utilityRe-ran sudo update-grub windows 7 no-longer on grub2 menu! Reboot OK windows 7 no-longer on grub2 menu ubuntu and XP boot ok. Remove (empty)windows 7 drive again and ubuntu fails to boot

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