mju4t
April 16th, 2012, 06:42 AM
I decided I no longer wanted Ubuntu, and wanted to remove it from my system.
Here is what I did (and I realize now after doing research that this was not the best way to go about it).
I wiped the Ubuntu partition and then combined the new free space with my Windows partition. That messed up GRUB, and when I boot, the GRUB Rescue Error prompt appears saying "no such disk". I believe this is because GRUB is looking for the grub files that I deleted.
I researched online and found that this is fairly common, and all I had to do was create a windows recovery disk and boot from that. I booted into the windows recovery, and it said that I had errors that were causing my PC from starting up, and wanted to repair it. I accepted, it attempted to repair. Upon finishing, I restarted, and the GRUB rescue is still there.
I then tried booting back into windows recovery , navigated to command prompt, and tried the /FixMBR, /FixBoot, /ReBuildBCD commands. They all completed successfully, and my computer STILL will not boot normally.
The only way that it boots is if I have my USB stick inserted. I can see the recovery option at the bootload screen, but also my main windows partition. I cannot use the computer without having the stick in. Once the computer is running, I can remove the stick - but I need it to boot, because I cannot get rid fo the grub recovery.
Does anybody know what I can do? I am at a loss! Thank you in advance for your help!
Here is what I did (and I realize now after doing research that this was not the best way to go about it).
I wiped the Ubuntu partition and then combined the new free space with my Windows partition. That messed up GRUB, and when I boot, the GRUB Rescue Error prompt appears saying "no such disk". I believe this is because GRUB is looking for the grub files that I deleted.
I researched online and found that this is fairly common, and all I had to do was create a windows recovery disk and boot from that. I booted into the windows recovery, and it said that I had errors that were causing my PC from starting up, and wanted to repair it. I accepted, it attempted to repair. Upon finishing, I restarted, and the GRUB rescue is still there.
I then tried booting back into windows recovery , navigated to command prompt, and tried the /FixMBR, /FixBoot, /ReBuildBCD commands. They all completed successfully, and my computer STILL will not boot normally.
The only way that it boots is if I have my USB stick inserted. I can see the recovery option at the bootload screen, but also my main windows partition. I cannot use the computer without having the stick in. Once the computer is running, I can remove the stick - but I need it to boot, because I cannot get rid fo the grub recovery.
Does anybody know what I can do? I am at a loss! Thank you in advance for your help!