Uninstall a Grun loader

I had a botched install of one of those routines from Rufus thumb drive software or some other installer promising to make the thumb drive bootable.
which deposited the grub boot loader grbldr (which may be familiar to Hirens users for the install of that software.)

How can the grub loader option screen be removed once on the system with no thumb drive installed? It runs seemingly at system level and offers Microsoft Windows XP etc or Grub Loader when no thumb drive is installed.

How can that be removed? Can it be removed with the same grbldr program? I eliminated Rufus after all this failure to install took place and wound up with this unwanted grub problem.

 

If this is your Win 7 system you are talking about the procedure is HERE. Run the FixMbr option first, then the FixBoot. You will need your Win 7 installation disk (if you have one that is, a recovery disk is no good for this). If you don't have an installation disk then create a Win 7 System Repair disk, instructions HERE.

You've had this happen because you ran the thumb drive installer on the wrong drive.

 

Re: Uninstall a Grub loader

I hope I fixed Grub for Grun just now. No, This is on the XP drive and nothing gets rid of it except disk wipe with something like one of the HDD Guru tools which have worked well for me:

http://hddguru.com/software/

They are tools which MG may want to feature as they are free.


I did the fixboot C:

and fix mbr in the control panel so far.

 

Since you're apparently running XP, you'll have to repair the Boot.ini AND the MBR.

You'll need the XP installation CD. When Setup loads, choose Recovery Console by typing "R", type "1" to select the Windows installation, then enter the Admin password.

At the first C:\WINDOWS> prompt, type "fixboot" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Then confirm the action by typing "Y" (without the quotes) and press Enter.

At the next C:\WINDOWS> prompt type "fixmbr" (without quotes), press Enter and confirm the action as before.

At the next C:\WINDOWS> prompt, again type "fixboot" (without quotes), press Enter and confirm as before. (This MUST be done twice. That's why it's repeated here.)

At the next C:\WINDOWS> prompt, remove the CD and type "exit" (without quotes) and press Enter.

The computer should then boot into XP normally and without the GrubLoader screen.

I've had to do this numerous times when I was experimenting with various Linux distros and dual-booting off of the same drive that also had XP.

 

I've had this happen and now the only safe way I use is to disconnect all the drives excepting for the one I am working on.

 

I will do the procedure soonest and thanks for the detailed reply. This is more detailed and has more steps than what I did previously.