nightshout230

So i have a laptop with windows 7 on it. and i had a usb drive with linux on it. so i installed it to check it out. had my fun, booted windows 7 and deleted the partition and all of the linux data. but now when i go to start my computer it says the grub package cannot be found and gives me an error. how can i get back to windows?

mothergoose729

The grub package is a linux thing. Sounds like your comp is trying to boot the linux OS you tried to delete. Tell it too boot from your windows partition. That or use something like partition magic to double check and delete partitions.

Hopefully you didn't delete windows by accident

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nightshout230

it looks like it gets stuck in the bios. it doesnt give me the option of where to boot from. it did when i had both installed

mothergoose729

Burn parition magic to a disk and boot it on your main machine. Use the program to double check your partition and delete the linux installation.

Next time I might suggest a live CD .

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nightshout230

will do thanks

Prolog

If you still have your Vista install disk, you could just use the recovery command prompt to fix the MBR.

(might save you a disk)

binormalkilla

I was just going to suggest this as well. He is correct, this will rewrite the Windows MBR back to the MBR of your hard drive. When you use GRUB it over writes the Windows MBR and manages the Windows OS as well. When you remove the Linux distro it also removes GRUB, thus your valid MBR data.

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chemicalfan

+1
This will do it (although I'd use your Windows 7 disc rather than your Vista disc, if you're staying with Win7!)

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