former windows 7 boot manager still showing

[Raf Roger]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Raf Roger <raf.news at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mellertson at gmail.com
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>> On 01/30/2013 01:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> > On 01/30/2013 10:11 AM, Raf Roger wrote:
>> >> i tried it and still have the windows boot manager when my HDD
>> boot :(
>> >> instead of having "system not found" (which is the typicall
>> message when
>> >> boot sector is not found in windows)
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>> > When you installed, where did you have it put grub? It sounds as
>> though you didn't put it in the MBR, or if you tried, it didn't
>> work. Maybe you need to have grub re-install itself and make sure,
>> this time, that you specify the right place.
>> One other thing to keep in mind - the BIOS may be set to boot from
>> the wrong drive. This is especially true with some of the "smart"
>> BIOSs. They keep tract of what disk you had selected to boot from,
>> and boots from that drive.
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>> Another "gotchya" is that the drive order may be different when
>> booting from a DVD/CD/USB drive then when booting from the hard
>> drive. So /dev/sda may not be your boot drive when you select
>> booting from the hard drive. You can usually reset this in the BIOS...
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>> Mikkel
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> Hello Mikkel,
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> so i will try to answer to everything in order :-)
> 1. after disconnecting all other HDD, and boot on the HDD i formatted,
> everything seems ok and computer requests me a booting device... so i
> discovered that i have a HDD that includes a boot sector...my D:\ drive...
> so i need to remove Windows Boot Manager from this one.... but without
> deleting or losing any data as i have backups on this drive.
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> someone could confirm me that for that i need to type dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1
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> i REALLY do not want to loose data from this HDD :-(
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> 2. in the bios, my first HDD to boot is the one i want to install Linux :-)
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> 3. in bios the first device to boot on is CD/DVD, USB key and HDD
> i have no CD/DVD except Linux one, and no usb HDD/key connected so no prob
> :-)
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> I hope i did not forget any question.
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> Al.
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so i just drop a line here to tell that gparted helped me to remove the
flag boot on this bad HDD and now my problem is solved.
Great thx to all of you.
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