Monday, October 8, 2012

HOWTO: Remove GRUB Loader and Restore Windows 7 and Vista Bootloader

Boot your system using CD or from recover partition, Select "Repair my computer" mode and select "Command Prompt".
Then you need to type:
bootrec.exe /FixBoot
bootrec.exe /FixMbr

It takes less than a second. Reboot and it’ll boot into Windows automatically.

Fixing the Windows MBR using a Ubuntu Live CD or USB

The method to fix the MBR is:
1. Boot the machine using the Live USB/CD.
2. Install lilo
sudo apt-get install lilo

3. Fix the MBR using lilo using the command:
sudo lilo -M /dev/sda mbr
Reboot your system, Bingo works like charm!!!!