Help! Grub is missing and won't let me boot into a healthy Windows 7

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  1. Matt Aiello New Member

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    So I made a mistake trying to remove my Xubuntu partition.

    I had my laptop dual-booting Windows 7 and Xubuntu for a class, now that it's over I wanted to remove the Xubuntu partition. So I went in to disk management and deleted the Xubuntu partition. When I restarted the machine, grub failed to boot and it said



    error: unknown filesystem.
    grub rescue>

    I have a command line where I can enter something, but I have no idea how to get rid of grub and get into my Windows partition.

    Please tell me that I don't have to reformat.

    Thanks
    Matt Aiello, Jun 25, 2012
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  2. samuria Network Specialist

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    Welcome to the forum. Is the win7 partition set as active if its not it wont boot. Have you got a win7 dvd to boot from? If you have follow this MS page
    samuria, Jun 25, 2012
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  3. Matt Aiello New Member

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    Alright, from there how do I get rid of grub and merge the partition? Also, thanks so much.
    Matt Aiello, Jun 25, 2012
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  5. samuria Network Specialist

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    Get it booting first then we can see were we are the fixboot etc should remove grub MBR
    samuria, Jun 25, 2012
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  6. LinuX Bronze Member

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    Boot a Linux livecd and try running ms-sys on the MBR.
    LinuX, Jul 2, 2012
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Help! Grub is missing and won't let me boot into a healthy Windows 7

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