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http://askubuntu.com – i have a problem, i have dual boot system with windows 7 and ubuntu. i decided to try out linux mint. but after a while i removed it by deleting it´s partition. when i restarted, the bootloader didn´t work anymore. i reinstalled linux mint so that i could use my pc again. but i really want to remove mint from my system. is there a way to delete mint and still be able to boot in to ubuntu ? (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 10/15/2012

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hello all, well , I made a real bonehead move today. I had pc set up to boot Mint, Ubuntu and win7. Ubuntu and Win7 on a SSD and Mint on seperate 1 TB HD , I also have a 2TB storage drive.

I was running two separate partitions of Linux (Ubuntu and Linux Mint) and Windows XP when I deleted my Ubuntu partition through Easus partition manager on XP due to simple stupidity. This erased my Grub bootloader, but I managed to install Grub Legacy from my Linux Mint Live CD.

Having been a Ubuntu user for a while, I switched to Mint 13 recently. All was well until I had to buy a new PC which had Windows 7 - 64bit installed.

It hasn't taken me long to realise how much I dislike it. So I thought I would dual boot using Mint 14 along side Windows 7. I used the Mint 14- 64 bit iso disc and got as far as the Linux Mint desktop. Everything worked great from the CD.

I have an old laptop that is setup with dual boot, running Windows Vista and Linux Mint 12. I want to remove the Mint and reclaim the space to Windows.

I have followed the excellent steps to install Linux Mint (as dual boot) on an HP Envy 14 ultrabook (1030us) as detailed by Raphink (Dual boot Installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on HP Ultrabook ENVY-4 1002TX) but am stuck!

I have gone through the installation procedure twice following all of Raphink's advice however my system will not boot into Linux Mint, or Win7, and all I see is a very primitive

I have a 4-boot config on my comp. Just erased a partition and want to throw in mint 12 inside of it. No DVD's or USB's near me.

It is possible to install linux mint 12 in other partition, without DVD or USB?

I am at linux mint 9, I have downloaded mint 12, and mounted as a DVD. What now? Can I run the installer from mint 9? How? Where it is?

At first, Windows 7 was the only OS in the drive.

Then I installed MINT. Accidentally, I formated the sda1 partition (where the windows 7 bootloader was stored) as ext4, being the mount point of /boot.

linux mint failed to boot.

please help.

when i did separate my boot partition and install grub on it then it was run one or two times but now facing same problem " grub rescue" , " you need to load the kernel first" etc.

i am new in linux mint please help to solve the prob.

here is my boot info.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1547675/

Hello,

I installed openSUSE 11.3 on a computer with Mint. openSUSE opens but there's not Mint on Grub.

I'm kind of confused with Grub.