Ubuntu mess up

Troncoso

Troncoso

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I have an external hard drive, and i created a partition on it and put ubuntu on it. my thinking behind this was to have it as a way of recovery on any computer. But i didn't think this through very well. I can't load windows with the external harddrive plugged in, else i get : error: no known device: something like that. So...what can I do to fix this? I'll gladly take linux off my harddrive but I know that wont fix the boot menu. What can I do?
 
I could be wrong but you have to go into your bios and set it to boot from your HDD, then when you want to boot from ubuntu you will have to manually go into your boot options and click on "boot from usb".
 
DMGrier said:
I could be wrong but you have to go into your bios and set it to boot from your HDD, then when you want to boot from ubuntu you will have to manually go into your boot options and click on "boot from usb".
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Yeah, i know to do that. But I don't want ubuntu on the external drive anymore. But I know if i delete it, the boot menu will still be messed up. I need an approach to fix this without having to do a complete re install
 
Troncoso said:
Yeah, i know to do that. But I don't want ubuntu on the external drive anymore. But I know if i delete it, the boot menu will still be messed up. I need an approach to fix this without having to do a complete re install
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What bootmanager do you have? Win xp, vista or grub2?
 
If you removre ubuntu, grub will still come up and you just select windows from it. Or do a repair on windows and it will fix the bootloader.
 
ukulele_ninja said:
If you removre ubuntu, grub will still come up and you just select windows from it. Or do a repair on windows and it will fix the bootloader.
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Wrong.

If you remove ubuntu grub will not come up, as it is installed on the partition ubuntu is on (On the external drive).

The following is for Windows 7, it will NOT work for XP and may not work for vista either.

All you need to do is insert your windows disk go into recovery open command prompt and type in:

Code: 
bootsect /nt60 C:

Reboot and you should boot straight into Windows.
 
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