During GRUB I can't arrow down to boot into Microsoft windows

Asked by Ray Snyder

I'm using UBUNTU 11.10 and GRUB won't let me arrow down to boot into Microsoft Windows

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Ray Snyder (snyderrcs) said :
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I removed ubuntu 10.10 by deleting its partition (Deleted partition from windows 7 )

But Grub loader did not uninstall

Now I can't log on to windows 7 as boot process stops at GRUB RESCUE screen.

Can not get through it

I do not have windows 7 RECOVERY CD (its all on the hard drive)

My PC is totally paralyzed so what can i do ? And is there a better way to remove ubuntu to avoid such errors ?

Thank you for your time

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A. Denton (aquina) said :
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Hello Ray!

In fact there is a better way; don't simply erase pratitions/volumes without doing adjustments on your bootloader first.

In your case booting from a media like an Windows 7 CD/DVD is the best choice. From there you could run the recovery console (F6 or something) and enter an interactive login shell. Ftom there you may enter something like /fixboot or /fixmbr to restore your maste boot record.

Since you do not have that Windows CD/DVD and get dropped to a GRUB shell you have to youse "onboard tools"; which isn't great.

1. Boot your system and await the GRUB shell prompt.
1. Issue "ls -a /dev/disk/by-uuid" and "ls -slap /dev/disk/by-uuid" (without the "")
2. Now write down or somehow copy the output of the command given above.
3. Then reboot and enter GRUB (ESCAPE), issue the key "p" and edit.
4. Enter the disk uuid in the most sensible way to get your windows booted.
5. As soon as Windows has starded successfully repair your bootloader as told above (open shell and fix it).

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