Help removing Ubuntu in Grub wubi

[nujinini]

Hi!

I Installed ubuntu in XP using wubi. I decided to remove it and am surprised to find that the grub still shows ubuntu. I have removed the installation through control panel>add remove software>remove and the systems seems to be cleared already, aside from the menu in grub.

I have googled for a solution and have screwed up my xp when I tried to edit boot.ini in cmd of XP. I have to repair it using XP cd last night.

I tried to search in our forums but am not getting any hits.

Can somebody please teach me how to remove ubuntu grub in wubi? I would prefer that when I click xp in the main grub of my system, I can go directly to XP without passing that "other grub".

Sorry if you find this confusing. Thank you for any advise.

nujinini

[yancek]

I would prefer that when I click xp in the main grub of my system, I can go directly to XP

What main Grub? You indicate you have xp and had a wubi install of Ubuntu. Where does the other Grub come in? What other operating system(s) do you have? What are you using as the primary bootloader? Do you have a system with Grub or Grub2 or both? I've never used wubi so I'm not sure how that works with the bootloader but have you taken a look at your menu.lst file (if you have Grub Legacy) or your grub.cfg file if you have Grub2?

[Rubberman]

You need to reinstall the Windows MBR. I cannot remember the specific steps, but as far as I remember you need to boot from a Windows installation CD/DVD, go to recovery mode, and issue the commands:

fixmbr
fixboot

Or something like that. Perhaps some other lurker her can be more specific. Myself, I only run Windoze in Linux virtual machines...

[devils casper]

Boot up from Windows Installation CD, select Repair and execute fixmbr command. It will re-install Windows Boot Loader and fix problem.

[rokytnji]

If no Windows CD. Use

Boot Problems Open Source Tools | Super Grub Disk, Super Grub2 Disk and Rescatux

[nujinini]

What main Grub?

Sorry for the confusion. My XP is multibooted with other OS'es and so when I choose XP from that "Main Grub", it still brings me to the wubi grub which I prefer to skip since I already uninstalled ubuntu and installed in the main HD partition.

[devils casper]

Sorry for the confusion. My XP is multibooted with other OS'es and so when I choose XP from that "Main Grub",

Problem is in boot.ini file only. Post the contents of boot.ini file here.

notepad C:\boot.ini

Execute above command in RUN Dialog box or at Dos prompt.

[nujinini]

Here it is:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\wubildr.mbr="Ubuntu"

[devils casper]

Delete last line.
Open Dos prompt or type cmd in Run dialog box.

C:\
ATTRIB -R -S -H BOOT.INI
COPY BOOT.INI BOOT.INN
NOTEPAD BOOT.INI

Now edit Boot.ini. When finished, save it and type

ATTRIB +R +S +H BOOT.INI

If everthing works fine on reboot, delete C:\boot.inn file. It's a back up of boot.ini.

Boot.ini file :

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

[nujinini]

Delete last line.
Open Dos prompt or type cmd in Run dialog box.

C:\
ATTRIB -R -S -H BOOT.INI
COPY BOOT.INI BOOT.INN
NOTEPAD BOOT.INI

Now edit Boot.ini. When finished, save it and type

ATTRIB +R +S +H BOOT.INI

If everthing works fine on reboot, delete C:\boot.inn file. It's a back up of boot.ini.

Boot.ini file :

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Done!

Thank you very much for this. It feels good also to learn a little of windows, for trouble shooting.

EDIT: Ooopsss, sorry I don't know how to delete boot.inn file from cmd. can you kindly show me too? Thanks!