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MBR - Restore Windows 7 Master Boot RecordHow to Restore the Windows 7 MBR (Master Boot Record) Published by iseeuu 08-14-2009 MBR - Restore Windows 7 Master Boot Record Published by

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If you have been dual booting with Linux, then you probably know one of the Linux boot managers like Grub or LILO has been installed in the MBR of your hard drive. What can you do when you no longer want Linux on that hard drive? This tutorial will show you how to use your 7 DVD and BOOTSECT.EXE to restore the "bootsector code" of the MBR and allow you to begin booting to Windows 7 again.Tip

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You can use this method to update the bootsector code for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 or switch between Bootmgr and NTLDR. Just check the Microsoft TechNet site for the correct command. Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: MO, USA Posts: 2,428

Here's How:1. Boot your computer to the Windows 7 DVD (or to a "Repair CD"). At this screen choose to install now.Click this bar to view the full image.

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2. Select your language and click next.Click this bar to view the full image.

3. Click the button for "Use recovery tools".

4. Then select "Command Prompt".Click this bar to view the full image.



5. When open, the command prompt will look like this:Click this bar to view the full image.

6. The command we will use, bootsect.exe, is in a folder (named boot) on the DVD. We need to know what drive letter has been assigned the DVD drive to access the folder. Code:Type: diskpart and press Enter Type: select disk and press Enter type: list and press

0 (zero)

volume Enter

In this screen shot, the 7 DVD is letter: GClick this bar to view the full image.

7. Use your DVD drive letter and Code:Type: exit and press Enter to close Diskpart



Type: G: (use the letter of your DVD drive) and press Enter Type: cd boot and press Enter Type: dir and press

Enter

to verify that bootcect.exe is there (if you really need to)Click this bar to view the full image.

8. To restore the "bootsector code": Code:TYPE: bootsect /nt60 and press Enter

SYS /mbr

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NOTE: If this method fails to restore the MBR, you can try the bootrec command as it is also a tool for repairing the MBR. 9. When completed successfully, Code:Type: exit and press Enter

This will close the command prompt window. 10. Now select Shut Down or RestartClick this bar to view the full image.



11. Then you can reboot your computer into Windows.

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08-28-2009 bluemoon4ever handy tip, thanks, windows 7 RTM 33 posts

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iseeuu Quote: Originally Posted by bluemoon4ever handy tip, thanks, Thanks, bluemoon4ever! You are most kind. Please allow me to be the first to welcome you to Windows Seven Forums. Glad to have you! Robert My System Specs 09-27-2009 Antony Just wondering. I currently have a dual boot with XP. If I want to delete the XP partition can I use this method to fix the mbr after I have deleted the XP partition and resized the Win 7 partition? Or do I need to fix the mbr first and then delete the Xp partition? #3

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09-27-2009 iseeuu Quote: Originally Posted by Antony Just wondering. I currently have a dual boot with XP. If I want to delete the XP partition can I use this method to fix the mbr after I have deleted the XP partition and resized the Win 7 partition? Or do I need to fix the mbr first and then delete the Xp partition? Hello Antony! and welcome to Windows Seven forums, your questions are always welcome. I can not give an accurate answer to your question until I know more about how your OSs are arranged on your hard drive(s). However, if you installed 7 after XP and now want to remove XP then the MBR probably does not need any repair in order to boot to 7. If you just want to remove the XP choice from the boot menu, you can use "msconfig" to delete the XP entry, no MBR fix necessary. (Thanks to Snuffy for this tip!) Cheers! Robert My System Specs 10-23-2009 Hammer100 Hi Wonder if you could help on a little problem I have.

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I have got Windows 7 Ultimate and installed it on a new hard drive. After installation I partitioned the drive in Windows creating a 400GB, 100GB, 500GB. After this completed I also noticed a 100MB System Reserved section but just ignored it. Everything worked fine. Then I think I did wrong. I wanted to create a dual boot system to also have XP on my PC and tried installing it on the 100GB partition but during instal everything crashed and now I get "Error Loading Operating System" when booting up. I have tried to repair using the Windows 7 DVD but no luck and when I look at the drives in Command Prompt they show as follows: C: System Reserved D: Spare Partition E: Spare (my 2nd hard drive) F: Windows 7 Partition Have tried following the instructions on here and it said succesful but still will not boot. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers My System Specs 11-01-2009 iseeuu Quote: Originally Posted by Hammer100 Hi Wonder if you could help on a little problem I have. I have got Windows 7 Ultimate and installed it on a new hard drive . After installation I partitioned the drive in Windows creating a 400GB, 100GB, 500GB. After this completed I also noticed a 100MB System Reserved section but just ignored it. Everything worked fine. Then I think I did wrong. I wanted to create a dual boot system to also have XP on my PC and tried installing it on the 100GB partition but during instal everything crashed and now I get "Error Loading Operating System " when booting up. I have tried to repair using the Windows 7 DVD but no luck and when I look at the drives in Command Prompt they show as follows: C: System Reserved D: Spare Partition E: Spare (my 2nd hard drive) F: Windows 7 Partition Have tried following the instructions on here and it said succesful but still will not boot. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers Hi Hammer100! Welcome to Windows Seven Forums. I am not sure what caused your booting problem. However, Windows 2000 and XP use NTLDR for their boot manager and Vista and Seven use Bootmgr. So by installing XP after installing 7 the Bootmgr has probably been overwritten breaking the boot path to 7. I would suggest you install XP first and then 7 because the 7 Bootmgr will include XP in the boot menu. Here is a link to some tutorials for dual booting: Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP If you are still having issues I can have this post moved to its own thread to get more help for you? Cheers! Robert My System Specs 11-02-2009 Hammer100 #7 #6




Hi Robert Windows 7 2 posts Thanks for the reply. What I ended up doing for the moment was to buy a new hard drive to install Windows 7, is it possible to multi boot from two different drives or do the two OS need to be on the same physical drive? Thanks Dave My System Specs 11-02-2009 iseeuu Quote: Originally Posted by Hammer100 Hi Robert Thanks for the reply. What I ended up doing for the moment was to buy a new hard drive to install Windows 7, is it possible to multi boot from two different drives or do the two OS need to be on the same physical drive? Thanks Dave It is absolutely possible to dual boot from two or more hard drives; in fact it has some advantages. I highly recommend it to those who want to dual boot with Linux. For example, the Linux boot manager can be fully functional on its on hard drive and include your Windows OSs in its menu, while your Windows OSs can be managed with a Window's boot manager and include the Linux OS in its menu. You then control which boot manager you wish to use by using the bios to select the hard drive it will boot to. If a hard drive crashes you can still run the OSs on the good drive. When you are installing an OS, just unplug all other hard drives and only work with one at a time. Also, I like to set the current OS partition to C:, and give the other partitions different letters. That way the running OS is always drive C:. There are a few Window's utilities that help edit the Window's boot manager so you can add and remove OSs from its menu, if you need them. Later! Robert My System Specs 11-07-2009 fly790420 this way did not work on my case. i have a laptop installed windows 7 , it was okay. until today i saw a article about removing the 100MB of "system reserved" partition.......and yeah...i did removed it by using my Windows 7 installation dvd.. now my laptop wouldnt boot...it shows only operating systen not found" i tried the method above but at Step 3, mine did not show up any operating system..all blank so i just clicked next then at Step 9 it couldnt restore the bootsector code. it only shows "the system partition was not found: the requested system device cannot be found" and then everything remain the same, still cannot boot. i know i am stupid to remove the system reserved partiton.. but i really need help here, i have imporant data in the laptop so i dont want to format and reinstall... #9 #8


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Recently I had been playing with Kubuntu on my Windows 7 machine. Dont get me wrong, Kubuntu and other Linux distributions are great. I wanted to remove it because I wasnt really using it anymore and I was getting sick of booting my machine and forgetting to change the GRUB option at start-up to boot into Windows 7. I know that the GRUB can be edited so that Windows 7 would boot first but I no-longer had the need for Kubuntu so I wanted to remove it all together including the GRUB. First of all I made a really dumb n00b error of booting into Windows 7 and deleting the partitions that Kubuntu occupied. Of course, the GRUB remained and my computer wouldnt even start. To get back to being able to boot again, I inserted my Kubuntu DVD and re-installed so the GRUB would work again. Now I thought, maybe EasyBCD would be able to remove the GRUB from within Windows 7 and then I could delete the Kubuntu partitions again. Unfortunately EasyBCD could not do this. My next plan was to boot from my Windows 7 DVD and use the option to fix start-up errors. This was not a good plan either. The GRUB remained but I now had a Windows Vista GUI start-up instead of the much more pretty Windows 7 one. I decided to do some research before making anymore stupid mistakes RTFM comes to mind. So I discovered that the first step to remove the GRUB (and Kubuntu or other disto of Linux) is to boot from your Windows 7 DVD, select your language and then to choose the repair option. At the repair option you should choose the command prompt and use the command: bootsect /nt60 C: Now restart your computer and Windows 7 should boot without entering the GRUB because this has been removed from your machine. If you have somehow got the old Windows Vista start-up GUI displaying on start-up, then you should wait for your computer to boot into Windows 7 and run the command prompt as an Administrator. To get the Windows 7 GUI start-up back, use the following command: bootrec /fixmbr Once youre happy that your computer is booting without the GRUB and directly into Windows 7 you can remove all traces of the Linux distribution going into Disk Management (Windows Key + R and type diskmgmt.msc). Simply delete the partitions and then expand the rest of the drive containing data to fill the empty space. The above is just a brief overview of what I did but if you have any questions or would like anything in more

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24 Responses to Removing Linux Grub & Restoring Windows 7 Boot GUImichelle harris:1 September 2009 at 3:35 pm Loving the new blog ! Well done there

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1uk3:1 September 2009 at 3:59 pm Thanks Michelle Log in to Reply

TooLate:13 September 2009 at 8:57 pm For my fix I had to use the follwoing: bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr Not using the /mbr would not remote the Grub boot loader. Log in to Reply

Chuck:18 April 2010 at 5:43 am I am so happy that I found this blog when I was having problem to boot into Windows 7 after removing the Linux partition without removing GRUB first, what an idiot I am. And thank you so much for sharing, Cuz I have to do it the same way as you to make it work, so thank you! Cheers! Chuck Log in to Reply

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lich_uk:8 November 2009 at 7:48 am Keep up the good work. I had the same problem (Vista animation on my Windows 7 Box) nothing to do with dual booting, but because I had a 'selective startup' in place before I installed Windows 7. Weeks later I spotted this when using the System Configuration tool to try to resolve a driver issue. When I set the system back to 'normal' boot it somehow restored the Vista animation. I had already tried various things with bootsect which didn't fix it, but I didn't know about bootrec. Thanks to your post I have now been able to restore my pretty Windows 7 animation. Log in to Reply

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Glad that you found it useful. If you ever need any help with anything, feel free to get in touch. That way I have a better idea of the things I should be writing about. Log in to Reply

tom:30 November 2009 at 5:16 pm when i do it, it tells me its complete and when i restart the GRUB loads again !! Log in to Reply

1uk3:30 November 2009 at 7:33 pm I'm not sure why that would be I'm afraid. I'll have an ask around and see if any of my geek friends can be of any help and get back to you in this message thread. Log in to Reply

1uk3:30 November 2009 at 7:35 pm Have you tried using bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr as someone else that commented used or the command I provided in the post bootsect /nt60 C: Log in to Reply

Ubuntu = sticky:11 December 2009 at 2:22 am Thank you for working to address this problem. Using everything there though, my comp still wants to give me the choice of Windows 7 or Ubuntu at boot up. I tried the first option in the post and the bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr. Still stuck.. Which option should one choose with all the options after typing help when trying bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr OR, any other ideas? Log in to Reply

Ubuntu = sticky:11 December 2009 at 2:24 am Thank you for working to address this issue. I had Ubuntu installed as an uninstallable program on Vista Home Premium prior to a clean installation of Windows 7 and now I've tried everything on this page and still given option of Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I tried bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr and typed help and am given many options, any idea which option will fix this? Thanks again and hope you can help. Log in to Reply

Daniel:15 December 2009 at 1:30 am thank you very much for the info but i got a problem Well the thing is that i thought that this will only delete the Grub and not the partition, so i made it, but it was not in a partition it was in an extra hard drive, so now is gone.:( Do you know if theres a way tu recover it?? Thank you very much and sorry for my bad english. Log in to Reply

Arif Budi Setyawan :6 January 2010 at 12:46 pm Waw!! thanks a lot, this article that I'm looking for. It's work Log in to Reply

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im curently having this trouble. installed ubuntu on a second partition alongside windows 7. it wouldnt boot at all. it just went straight to the windows boot screen (i have vista on a second drive. recently installed win7) so i got fed up with it and deleted the ubuntu partition. my machine gets stuck on a grub error when i try to boot. i tried boot from your Windows 7 DVD, select your language and then to choose the repair option. At the repair option you should choose the command prompt and use the command: bootsect /nt60 C: Now restart your computer and Windows 7 should boot without entering the GRUB because this has been removed from your machine. this didnt work. i can get windows to boot using something i found on the 'ultimate boot cd' but i cant seem to repair it so the pc boots straight into windows. Log in to Reply

Indiana Jones:11 February 2010 at 5:04 am Cool , worked like cake for me.. Only stuff I had to do different was to execute both commands ( bootsect /nt60 C: AND bootrec /fixmbr ) one after another and THEN reboot. Thanks.. Log in to Reply

urmycmru:16 May 2010 at 3:49 am Thanks Luke (1uk3) and TooLate!!!! I had done EXACTLY as the title article had stated and then couldnt boot my laptop. I tried lukes command 1st, same problem, then I tried Toolates bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr and she booted properly. I am so thankful. Thanks to all! My old boss always said You cant teach experience! Log in to Reply

DeathJoker304:18 May 2010 at 10:30 pm Try using the command:(bootrec/fixmbr)it worked for me. Log in to Reply

Chris24:19 May 2010 at 9:01 pm I actually love you Wow I am so happy I downloaded the Gnome Live CD and installed Linux But then I did the same as you an uninstalled the patition I was panicing and then I came across your page THANK YOU SO MUCH!! My PC is restored And Now I know a little more about programming too Log in to Reply

j0rd0:18 August 2010 at 5:45 am Thank you so VERY VERY MUCH!!! Spent a few hours going through sites which ended up being useless and finally I can get to sleep! Crisis averted! Log in to Reply

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berkeleydb:22 August 2010 at 4:37 pm Ive got a new wrinking on the Ubuntu removal problem. 1. Ubuntu 9.04 was installed on Windows XP machine(not by me). 2. Machine was subsequently upgraded to Windows7. 3. Now looking to start the Ubuntu removal process by locating the Ubuntu partition, I go to Windows Disk Management. There is only one partition(C:). The one or two unlabled partitions I would expect to see for Ubuntu are missing. So I cannot delete a partition that I cannot find. 4. I note that when the machine is booted, I get a startup window labled Windows Boot Manager, not the grub I get options for Windows7, Previous version of Windows, and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu option actually boots Ubuntu, so its still existing somewhere, even though I cant find the partition. The Previous Windows Version also takes me to Ubuntu, not to Windows XP. 5. Just for kicks, I go into Windows7 XP mode, and look for partitions. Since its a virtual HD in xp mode, I can only see the one partition. 6. I tried bcedit /enum to see if I could figure out where Windows7 is going when Ubuntu is booted. I get boot configuration data store could not be opened. Access is denied I realize this is a separate problem from the Ubuntu problem. I just havent looked it up yet. I realize that upgrading to Windows7 with Ubuntu already installed on XP was maybe not a good idea. Is there an alternative here other than reformatting and reinstalling Windows7 ? Log in to Reply

gravis86:27 August 2010 at 12:56 am Id like to add that if people have tried: bootsect /nt60 C: bootsect /nt60 C: /mbr bootrec /fixmbr and its still not working, try using a different drive letter. When you boot from the Windows 7 disc and click Repair, it will ask you which installation of windows to repair. Note the drive letter, as it may not be C In my case, the drive letter was G so i typed: bootsect /nt60 G: /mbr and my computer booted right up! Log in to Reply

teqnoqolor :15 September 2010 at 5:47 am Thank you so much! I was playing around with BackTrack, then it got angry and ate my wireless card so I decided to get rid of it but of course I just removed the partition and thought GRUB would disappear as well. Anyway, after a lot of franticness I finally found your site and voila! Everything is back to normal, so Id just like to say thanks. Log in to Reply

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