Okey so I wanted to install linux mint 10 on my external hard drive. I inserted the live cd and after starting up there was an icon that said install linux mint which I used to install linux mint. ( I guess that this means I installed it with wubi right?). After installing it and removing my hard drive windows 7 did not want to boot anymore this error message came up error: no such device found ( and then some numbers and letters) grub rescue> . Now I managed to repair grub on the external hard drive ( I don't know if it is grub2 or grub). So when I boot the computer without the external hard drive It shows me the error and when I plug in the external hard drive it gives me the choice to boot from linux mint 10 64-bit and windows 7. Now Windows 7 works but in order to start it I would always need this external hard drive and also I did this on my sisters computer and she definately does not want to have that external hard drive to boot the computer and choose windows 7 on the list ll the time. Can I remove grub somehow so windows 7 boot loader will be booting because I don't need linux mint on this computer at all. Can someone help me I just want the computer to be the same as it was before. Also I do not have a recovery cd for the computer just the live cd. The computer is an acer aspire AM1641-E3570A . Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Also I am a noob with linux.
Error: no such devices found grub rescue
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You installed the grub bootloader on your internal drive. It looks for it's modules/menu etc. on the external drive in the ubuntu partition. That's why you can't boot with it unplugged.
So what you need is a windows bootloader back on the internal. You can either pop in a windows disk and boot to a win repair prompt: bootrec.exe /fixmbr
or install lilo from Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install lilo
sudo lilo -M /dev/sda mbrBoth will work. You just want to check that when you boot your external it doesn't switch the drive order i.e. confirm /dev/sda is your internal drive. You'll get a big warning screen when you install lilo. You can ignore this as it relates to booting linux not windows.
Thank you so much!!!!! I tried the command to install lilo before on the linux live cd because I saw a thread about it but for some reason it did not work. So because before I posted the thread I downloaded a windows 7 repair cd and by going choosing the command I typed in bootrec.exe /fixmbr and it worked perfectly. I did not even have to wait long 1 second and it said it did it successfully. I really appreciate that giving good short method and easy description.
For anybody who has the same problem and sees this thread you can download windows 7 repair cd from here: http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/ they also show you the steps to make the cd. You don't need to download this and make a cd out of it if you did not loose your recovery cd.
Anyways thank you very much!!:P:D:P
Hi guys, the exact same thing happened to me, and I executed the same command and it worked! THANK YOU :) I still get the menu on startup for choosing Windows7 or Ubuntu. I want to take that off though (ie uninstall ubuntu), but how? It's not in my installed programs in windows. How do I take it off? I just want windows now like before. (Ill use linux on another comp).
AkulaFB said: Hi guys, the exact same thing happened to me, and I executed the same command and it worked! THANK YOU :)
I still get the menu on startup for choosing Windows7 or Ubuntu. I want to take that off though (ie uninstall ubuntu), but how? It's not in my installed programs in windows. How do I take it off? I just want windows now like before. (Ill use linux on another comp).
Generally you should create a new thread for help so others see it.
Download and run easyBCD to remove the boot entry for Ubuntu (seems to be the easiest), OR go to a command prompt as administrator (right click on CMD, choose run as administrator) and run bcdedit.exe. This should list the boot manager entries; then highlight and copy the GUID corresponding to Ubuntu, then run: bcdedit /delete {GUID} (I typed that from memory, so check first with: bcdedit /h )