About 2 years ago I played around with GRUB dual-booting Ubuntu. I found Linux not much use to me, but it was fun for awhile.
It's been so long I'm not sure how I got back to a normal Vista bootup, but I pretty much forgot about GRUB and Linux. Until my Western Digital main C: Raptor hard drive failed last week.
I can restore the Windows 7 system to both C: (WD) and D: (Samsung) drives from WHS and get a successful restore.
When I reboot, the BIOS only recognizes D: as a bootable drive on my BOOT listing, the Samsung. If I press F9 for a manual boot disk, I select the Western Digital, I will go straight into Windows 7 no problems.
However, if I forget, or slip up, or in the course of testing , attempting to boot into the Western Digital (Windows 7) hands-off, if the default Samsung drive loads, it tries to boot GRUB, and fails. At that point, the MBR is corrupt and I will no longer be able to boot into Windows 7. E_V_E_R until I do a 2.5 hour restore again.
When I boot into Windows 7 recover console, it switches the drive letters. It makes the WD the D: drive and the Samsung the C: drive. I've tried every combination of /bootcfg, /bcdedit and automated Windows 7 CD repair I can think of. I cannot get this GRUB thing go away.
I have also taken the drives and put them into another PC and reformatted / reset them. I think that GRUB must be part of the WHS backup that i am restoring.
It's been so long I'm not sure how I got back to a normal Vista bootup, but I pretty much forgot about GRUB and Linux. Until my Western Digital main C: Raptor hard drive failed last week.
I can restore the Windows 7 system to both C: (WD) and D: (Samsung) drives from WHS and get a successful restore.
When I reboot, the BIOS only recognizes D: as a bootable drive on my BOOT listing, the Samsung. If I press F9 for a manual boot disk, I select the Western Digital, I will go straight into Windows 7 no problems.
However, if I forget, or slip up, or in the course of testing , attempting to boot into the Western Digital (Windows 7) hands-off, if the default Samsung drive loads, it tries to boot GRUB, and fails. At that point, the MBR is corrupt and I will no longer be able to boot into Windows 7. E_V_E_R until I do a 2.5 hour restore again.
When I boot into Windows 7 recover console, it switches the drive letters. It makes the WD the D: drive and the Samsung the C: drive. I've tried every combination of /bootcfg, /bcdedit and automated Windows 7 CD repair I can think of. I cannot get this GRUB thing go away.
I have also taken the drives and put them into another PC and reformatted / reset them. I think that GRUB must be part of the WHS backup that i am restoring.