I uninstalled Ubuntu from Windows 7 in stupidest way. I deleted the partition memory of Ubuntu from Windows. When i restarted my system it stuck into "grub rescue". how to solve this problem.? any advice. all my work are stuck into windows and i can't do anything now. pls help me.!  I'm new to Ubuntu and I don't know how it works. I don't want Ubuntu in my system.
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I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed on the same partition   Some time later, decided to uninstall Ubuntu.So I booted Ubuntu,Changed the hd related to it to NTFS,I did NOT extended my main drive   restarted-> GRUB rescue&gt;. No surprise since I had just wiped out the whole GRUB directory staff   Now I just want to boot into my windows.Move my necessary files to an external memory and reinstall the windows seven     What I have in my hands: Ubuntu live CD, A copy of win7 DVD I tried to make use of the win7 DVD(I had lost my DVD) to fix the mbr but the problem is when I choose repair, It says that this version of Windows is incompatible with yours What should I do?
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I had Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 installed in dual boot.  Roughly 125GB each.   After the Windows update the PC only showed me the grub rescue terminal. I could neither use Ubuntu nor use Windows.  I inserted the liveCD and ran boot-repair.  After that Windows appeared normally, but no GRUB and no Ubuntu.  This is what I get when I run sudo fdisk -l:    Ubuntu must be either /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda4, since they are the biggest partitions, but neither of them is recognized as a Linux system.  What should I do?
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I have Windows 8 pre-installed, and then I installed GRUB with Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not my thing, so now I want to remove it along with GRUB. From what I have learned, with UEFI, GRUB does not overwrite the windows bootloader in the EFI partition and is stored elsewhere. How would I remove GRUB and make my PC use the Windows bootloader instead? It should be noted that I created a separate /boot partition when installing Ubuntu.
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Soooooo, I seem to have myself in a very particular situation. Let me start from the beginning, I set up dual boot with Windows 10, and Lubuntu. Everything went according to plan. I then decided that I wanted to remove dual-boot. I looked on several articles some saying to use bootrec.exe, to repair and remove it but then I realized "It doesn't use the windows boot manager... it uses grub." So with this knowledge I searched for guides on how to remove grub. I found a guide () I could not access my system drive, so I dual-booted into Lubuntu and used root to access the EFI folder and deleted the "ubuntu" folder and rebooted to a happy little message saying: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key_ . I realize that all my data is still there. I realize that in deleting the "ubuntu" folder that I deleted critical files part of the loading of grub. I now need to somehow replace these files, and get back to Windows 10.  Sidenote: I don't have bootrec.exe as a command. I checked this before I deleted the grub files.  Thanks for the help, -r
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I am using ubuntu 12.04. Can I install windows 7 and use it as a dual boot system. When I tried this earlier windows doesn't detect ubuntu.Is there any solution for this.
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I installed Ubuntu via usb with no problems, but when I restart, I get an error message:   error out of disk" 'grub rescue.   How can I fix this?
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I've posted a question  that I have a 32bits windows 7 on a dual boot machine with ubuntu 10.04 upgraded to 11.04. From the responses I had from the questions, I decided to reinstall the windows 7 but this time a 64bits version.  I've install the grub on the first section of the HDD on which ubuntu is install, meaning the 2nd Drive.  I still want guidance before I proceed.  What would you suggest me as best way to achieve that without disturbing the boot loading.  thank you for reading this.
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I have a HP Compaq nx6310 notebook wth 4gb memory &amp; a new 250gb hdd. After installing Ubuntu 12.04, i got an "out of disk" error &amp; was unable to boot. I rebooted in live, instaled &amp; ran Boot Repair then rebooted. Grub menu loaded fine, followed by "out of disk.....press any key to continue". I pressed a key &amp; Ubuntu booted, a bit slow but still booted. So here are my questions: 1- Since Ubuntu DOES boot, should I just leave it alone? 2- If I need to fix this, HOW do I do it? 3- What causes this error?  $wolf@lpc-1:~$ df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1       230G  9.1G  209G   5% / udev            1.6G   12K  1.6G   1% /dev tmpfs           655M  868K  654M   1% /run none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock none            1.6G  260K  1.6G   1% /run/shm wolf@lpc-1:~$
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I did a fresh install of ubuntu 11.04, then I installed Windows 7. So I decided to fix the grub after win7 install using the ubuntu 11.04 Live CD.  Disaster:  instead of  $sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/media/uuid/ /dev/sda  I entered  $sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/uuid/ /dev/sda  Now when my system boots, it stops at the grub console  grub>  My problem is exactly as this one  but I have not been able to fix my problem. Thanx for your help.
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I was running out of space for Windows 10, so I deleted my Ubuntu partition and then combined the free space and added it to the Windows 10 partition into a single partition (the boot partition was untouched). Now all I get when I turn on my computer is:  Error no such partition. &gt;grub rescue   I have tried rebooting, but it did not work. Is there any way to fix it? My idea is that if i reinstalled Ubuntu it may fix it, but I'm not sure. I don't have a Windows repair disk, and I can't make one, but I do have a 4GB USB flash drive.
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I have Windows 7 on my HP laptop and I want to install Ubuntu.  I tried to shrink my boot and system partition, it does not allow me to shrink the partition more than 97 MB. Is it necessary to delete the recovery partition?   I want to know how to put this recovery on a CD or DVD to keep it and not to lose it.
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Yesterday I tried turning on my computer. It led me into this grub menu and I have no idea how to get out. I can't use my computer anymore due to this. What should I do? Do I type in a command or something?
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Long story short, my Ubuntu partition and my Windows 8 partition had a fight, and they both lost. I have a computer booting nothing at the moment. So I'm trying to figure out how to get a clean-install of Windows 8 on my laptop. The usual refresh/reset features are out. There are no backups. Recovery partitions are gone.  Ideally, I need a Windows 8 (not Pro) ISO to install, but despite my searches, I cannot seem to find one. Anyone have any ideas how I can reset my PC and install Windows 8 again?
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I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 (no separate partitions, I selected inside windows option).   I want to uninstall Ubuntu but last time I tried it and the Ubuntu is released but the GRUB remains. How do I remove GRUB?
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I am just about to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, just need to make sure I know how to remove it later.  I know from past the major problem was when I removed Ubuntu, I either still got into the GRUB booting menu, or I couldn't boot at all, and had to format HDD and start over. Now I found an article practically saying the Windows loader should be back upon deleting Linux partition, so I want to make sure:  If I have Windows and Ubuntu dualboot, and I want to get back to Windows booting quickly itself without choosing from any booting menu, is it enough to just delete the Ubuntu partition? Will the Windows loader override GRUB?  Thanks!
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How do I completely reinstall Ubuntu without affecting the Windows partition? The way I setup my laptop is like this:   Completely wiped everything using GParted from Ubuntu CD Partitioned the HDD to 3 partitions (one for Windows, one for Ubuntu, one for Storage) Installed Windows 7 Pro 64-bit Installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit   The reason why I want to reinstall is NOTHING works in Ubuntu. No internet at all both Ethernet, and Wireless and when I figured out how to fix the wireless, there is no way to download drivers for the display so everything is just ugly and big. To make things more complicated, upgrading to 10.10 via update manager just gives me an error.  The way I see it right now is I have to try to wipe 10.04 and just install 11.04 from scratch but I'm not sure how to do that? Does anyone know?
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I had Windows 7 installed on my laptop, I installed Ubuntu and chosen the option to delete everything. But when I clicked that, it deleted my windows 7 partitions.  C: Windows  E: Documents F: Important Files   When doing a full wipe with Windows 7 it does not touch any other partitions just the C: drive. Now I have all the partitions merged together and I have lost my files. I have some really important files in the partitions that was deleted E:, F: is there anyway I could get them back.  I am new to Ubuntu and now I am stuck on it till I try and find my files back and change my partition to NTFS so windows can install.