Restoring VISTA boot after ubuntu removal?

Well, I deleted ubuntu from the second hard drive but forgot that it
left its boot loader behind. So, now I have a machine that boots up
with the following:

GRUB loading, please wait

Error 17



I cannot find the ****ed GRUB loader in my C directory, but it has to be
there, eh?

So, how do I get rid of it and restore my normal VISTA bootup?

Thanks!

Grrr. :>}

Download & try VistaBootPro http://www.vistabootpro.org/


"Harry Krause" <harry.krause@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ukck3wllHHA.4592@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> Well, I deleted ubuntu from the second hard drive but forgot that it
> left its boot loader behind. So, now I have a machine that boots up
> with the following:
>
> GRUB loading, please wait
>
> Error 17
>
>
>
> I cannot find the ****ed GRUB loader in my C directory, but it has to be
> there, eh?
>
> So, how do I get rid of it and restore my normal VISTA bootup?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Grrr. :>}

Harry Krause wrote:
>
> Well, I deleted ubuntu from the second hard drive but forgot that it
> left its boot loader behind. So, now I have a machine that boots up
> with the following:
>
> GRUB loading, please wait
>
> Error 17
>
>
>
> I cannot find the ****ed GRUB loader in my C directory, but it has to be
> there, eh?
>
> So, how do I get rid of it and restore my normal VISTA bootup?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Grrr. :>}

Repair install Vista.

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Grub left a pointer in the MBR to itself on your second drive. When
you wiped it out, its pointer pointed to nothing. Vista can fix the MBR.
Boot from the Vista DVD, find repair bootup, tell it to repair bootup.

"Harry Krause" <harry.krause@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ukck3wllHHA.4592@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> Well, I deleted ubuntu from the second hard drive but forgot that it
> left its boot loader behind. So, now I have a machine that boots up
> with the following:
>
> GRUB loading, please wait
>
> Error 17
>
>
>
> I cannot find the ****ed GRUB loader in my C directory, but it has to be
> there, eh?
>
> So, how do I get rid of it and restore my normal VISTA bootup?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Grrr. :>}

In article <f2ae8a$k2k$2@aioe.org>, Nina DiBoy <not@home.now> says...
> Harry Krause wrote:
> >
> > Well, I deleted ubuntu from the second hard drive but forgot that it
> > left its boot loader behind. So, now I have a machine that boots up
> > with the following:
> >
> > GRUB loading, please wait
> >
> > Error 17
> >
> >
> >
> > I cannot find the ****ed GRUB loader in my C directory, but it has to be
> > there, eh?
> >
> > So, how do I get rid of it and restore my normal VISTA bootup?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Grrr. :>}
>
> Repair install Vista.

Noooooooooo!

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Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Bootmanager ook voor Vista
Zin in een koffie- thee- of borrelpraatje? Kom naar alt.jawade.nl
http://jawade.nl (Mirror op http://www.geocities.com/kolibrie.geo)
Bootmanager, ClrMBR, DiskEditors, POP3lezer, Filebrowser, Kalender

In article <uP4YO6llHHA.1624@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, Dave <dave@roadrunner.com> says...
> Download & try VistaBootPro http://www.vistabootpro.org/

How should he install it???

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Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Bootmanager ook voor Vista
Zin in een koffie- thee- of borrelpraatje? Kom naar alt.jawade.nl
http://jawade.nl (Mirror op http://www.geocities.com/kolibrie.geo)
Bootmanager, ClrMBR, DiskEditors, POP3lezer, Filebrowser, Kalender

He didn't say that it wouldn't boot.


"Jawade" <Henk_Jawade@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.20b2e29e2c3f7be59896fc@news.microsoft.com ...
> In article <uP4YO6llHHA.1624@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, Dave
> <dave@roadrunner.com> says...
>> Download & try VistaBootPro http://www.vistabootpro.org/
>
> How should he install it???
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Bootmanager ook voor Vista
> Zin in een koffie- thee- of borrelpraatje? Kom naar alt.jawade.nl
> http://jawade.nl (Mirror op http://www.geocities.com/kolibrie.geo)
> Bootmanager, ClrMBR, DiskEditors, POP3lezer, Filebrowser, Kalender

Harry Krause wrote:

>
> Well, I deleted ubuntu from the second hard drive but forgot that it
> left its boot loader behind. So, now I have a machine that boots up
> with the following:
>
> GRUB loading, please wait
>
> Error 17
>
>
>
> I cannot find the ****ed GRUB loader in my C directory, but it has to be
> there, eh?
>
> So, how do I get rid of it and restore my normal VISTA bootup?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Grrr. :>}

this used to be restored with a simple

fdisk /mbr

i don't know ubuntu cd, but there used to be tools for that in mostly linux
boot cd's... try boot again with the ubuntu disk and see the messages
before the installing process, there is usual a F1 that leads you to a set
of tools when sould be a MBR restauration tool

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Jawade wrote:
> In article <f2ae8a$k2k$2@aioe.org>, Nina DiBoy <not@home.now> says...
>> Harry Krause wrote:
>>> Well, I deleted ubuntu from the second hard drive but forgot that it
>>> left its boot loader behind. So, now I have a machine that boots up
>>> with the following:
>>>
>>> GRUB loading, please wait
>>>
>>> Error 17
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I cannot find the ****ed GRUB loader in my C directory, but it has to be
>>> there, eh?
>>>
>>> So, how do I get rid of it and restore my normal VISTA bootup?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Grrr. :>}
>> Repair install Vista.
>
> Noooooooooo!
>

What, exactly your problem? Repair install Vista repairs the master
boot record which Grub had changed for its on use. After doing that,
Vista will boot normally.

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ArameFarpado wrote:
> Harry Krause wrote:
>
>> Well, I deleted ubuntu from the second hard drive but forgot that it
>> left its boot loader behind. So, now I have a machine that boots up
>> with the following:
>>
>> GRUB loading, please wait
>>
>> Error 17
>>
>>
>>
>> I cannot find the ****ed GRUB loader in my C directory, but it has to be
>> there, eh?
>>
>> So, how do I get rid of it and restore my normal VISTA bootup?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Grrr. :>}
>
> this used to be restored with a simple
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> i don't know ubuntu cd, but there used to be tools for that in mostly linux
> boot cd's... try boot again with the ubuntu disk and see the messages
> before the installing process, there is usual a F1 that leads you to a set
> of tools when sould be a MBR restauration tool


I saw no such tool.

Further, I followed to the letter MS's VISTA instructions for restoring
the boot file, from bootrec.exe:

bcdedit /export c:\bcd_backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /rebuildbcd

I got the proper response to each step, but...
when I rebooted, I still had the ****ed GRUB bootloader taking control.

My conclusion for the moment is that GRUB behaves like a virus.

Any suggestions?