Remove Grub & Restore MBR. I just added a 2nd hdd (1) and installed Linux Mint to it. The 1st hdd (0) has the original Win7 x64 that came with my Dell box. Remove Grub - Restore Windows 7 You are dual booting with a Linux OS, using the Grub bootloader menu, and now you want to remove Linux and Grub and restore your Windows 7 boot manager. 2020-4-30  To remove ubuntu grub you need to mount that partition on Windows and remove the entire Ubuntu directory with windows commands. Alternatively you can use a linux live USB and mount the EFI system partition to remove the Ubuntu directory. That's all about how to remove ubuntu from dual boot system, hope it's simple enough to understand.

Reverting to GRUB Legacy

If a user chooses to return to GRUB legacy (0.97), these steps will remove GRUB 2 and install GRUB.

The command line produces a cleaner uninstall and reinstallation. While adding and removing the packages can be accomplished with Synaptic, certain steps must be accomplished in a terminal.

1. Open a terminal: Applications, Accessories, Terminal.
2. Optional: Make backup copies of the main GRUB 2 directories and files.

   • sudo cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.old

   • sudo cp -R /etc/grub.d /etc/grub.d.old

   • sudo cp -R /boot/grub /boot/grub.old

3. Remove GRUB 2

   • sudo apt-get purge grub-pc

   • The system will be unbootable until another bootloader is installed.

   • Once the packages are removed, many files will still remain in '/boot/grub'
4. Install GRUB 0.97

   • sudo apt-get install grub

5. With grub installed, the user must still create the menu.lst and stage1/stage2 files by running the following two commands. Mario wings to the sky 64 free.

   1. sudo grub-install /dev/sdX

      • Choose the correct device (sda, sdb, etc), normally the one on which Ubuntu is installed.

      • Creates the stage1 and stage2 files in /boot/grub and writes to the MBR.

   2. sudo update-grub

      • Generates menu.lst

      • Tab to 'Yes' when prompted.
6. Reboot

If the user receives an 'Unrecognized device string Error 11' message on rebooting see the Resolving an 'Unrecognized Device String' (Error 11) section for instructions on how to edit the menu and make the system bootable.

I decided to uninstall Arch Linux, so I deleted the partitions. However, whenever I boot, it boots to GRUB, and GRUB says that it can't find partitions so it goes to grub_rescue.

What I did during installation: When I installed GRUB, I put the following command on windows cmd, because I thought it wasn't working (I got this code from here). Turns out it was just the secure boot turned on.

After I put this code, whenever I went to the boot menu, I could choose between two Windows:

http://i.imgur.com/AaulMU2.jpg
(I have no idea how to change the size of the image in the forums, I didn't want this to be this big)

The first one goes to GRUB and the second one goes to Windows 10.

The third one is my Windows installation disk, in which I used the command line to try to repair the bootloader. No success. Tractor tyre 3d model free download. I used all the commands I found in the internet, all the bootrecs and bootsects. Nothing worked.

Then I installed easyBCD. As you can see, GRUB is the first 'Windows Boot Manager':

I've already deleted the partitions, why is this still here?

Also something else: since I installed GRUB, whenever I boot Windows 10, this always shows up:

(Sorry for awful quality, this goes out pretty fast)

My computer is Acer Aspire E 15, if that helps.

moderator edit: Welcome to the forums. I have converted the large images to links. See my follow up post below. --fsckd

edit: I solved this by mounting the EFI partition and then deleting archgrubx64.efi.

Last edited by rdb (2015-09-09 18:10:25)