Hello,

I've dual booted Ubuntu and windows for a while now but I no longer wanted to use Ubuntutu. I deleted the Ubuntu partition and then when I tried to reboot the computer I couldn't access it as I had the grub rescue error...

Here's my question though, how do I get rid of grub rather than fixing it? S that it loads straight to windows 7 so I can install a different distro at a later date. There's multiple partitions on my machine and I only deleted one so I think that is thenubuntu files but grub is elsewhere and deleting Ubuntu has caused this issue?

I've got access via booting a lightweight distro from a CD. Please help!

That's a common problem. Grub has it's first stage in the MBR along with the partition table, and the remainder of grub is in the Linux partition. When you delete Linux, the first stage of grub can't find the remainder of its files, and you get an error message.

Here is a thread with instructions on how to fix the problem using Ubuntu as a livecd:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=622828

It refers to a application called ms-sys, which I gather is no longer available in Ubuntu. However, in a search for the .deb of ms-sys, I found a source for 32 and 64 bit versions, as well as the source code to compile it:http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=108274

Note for future reference: when you decide to remove a Linux partition (if it's the only one), with the intention of continuing to use windows, fix the mbr using the windows recovery console before deleting Linux. If you have more that one distro installed, select another to boot into, and run grub config from there to keep things running smoothly.

You can use a windows dvd to repair your MBR. There are some sites that you can download it from,but you have to select the 1 appropriate for your wins installation. I'll post the site when I find it.
http://www.mytechguide.org/10042/win...iver-download/
It even works for repair installation with your product key.