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Originally Posted by Dave738
I was having trouble booting from my Windows 7 disk, it would keep booting into a menu that asked me which os I wanted to start..... I was never getting the option to boot from cd. I was repeatedly rebooting while holding f2, f12 and f10....to no avail.
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Tends to be hardware vendor specific. If you can't find a user guide, try <Esc>, <Del>, <Shift> ... I even had one Toshiba that you had to hold the <C> key down (for CD ... well, d'oh).
As a last resort I've been known to pull the hard drive out completely. That should pop up the BIOS menu.
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I figured if I booted into windows i could run easus partition to erase the partition that housed Ubuntu. Once erased, upon reboot it still booted into the "os selector".
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Nope - you have grub in the MBR, but you removed all the code that actually does the booting. The code inthe MBR basically just branches to that code and continues.
If you have another system you can pull the hard drive out and erase the grub code in the MBR, put the disk back, and boot that (with the CD) - it'll skip over the disk as it has no boot code. Easier to find the BIOS boot menu "magic key" though - watch the splash screen as you power-on the box.