Re: former windows 7 boot manager still showing

[Raf Roger <raf.news@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mellertson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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)
>
> 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.

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...

Mikkel
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Hello Mikkel,

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.

someone could confirm me that for that i need to type dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1

i REALLY do not want to loose data from this HDD :-(

2. in the bios, my first HDD to boot is the one i want to install Linux :-)

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 :-)

I hope i did not forget any question.

Al.

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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