would buy a new laptop and passing my current win7/opensuse dual boot laptop to someone who would prefer windows only.
google for remove linux instruction and it involve booting windows recovery and reinstate windows boot loader by
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bootrec.exe /fixmbr*
However in win recovery there is no windows os listed and unable to proceed further. have not found solutions on windows forums yet.
View image: IMG 1031
wonder if it could be fixed on gparted? is it advisable to mark sda1 (or sda2?) as boot? what to do with sda4 flag? below is my current gparted
View image: gparted17 Jul
goal is to remove opensuse (and grub) and boot direct to windows without grub menu.
appreciate advice to avoid trapping myself again. thanks.
On 2013-07-17 12:16, andy0023 wrote:
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> would buy a new laptop and passing my current win7/opensuse dual boot
> laptop to someone who would prefer windows only.
Simply reinstall Windows. You re not going to give him your Windows
installation, are you?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
of course i am giving my windows together.
the new pc would be equipped with win8 and I am ready for the frustration
On 2013-07-17 13:46, andy0023 wrote:
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> of course i am giving my windows together.
>
> the new pc would be equipped with win8 and I am ready for the
> frustration
Your license and the copy of Windows, yes. But your own installation
with your configuration and your installed program, no.
It is win8, that laptop probably has a repair partition. Just boot that
and let it run. That way he gets a computer in factory condition re Windows.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
sda1 looks like a partition that is used to store the drivers of the laptop rather than a boot partition - you can check what’s on it by mounting it.
sda2 might be the original boot partition but I am not sure if setting the boot flag for it will get what you want.
I would suggest the same things as the other people - do a clean re-install of Win7 with your lenovo install disk and delete everything else.
Or it did not come with install disk but only with the recovery partition which is sda3?
If this is what you did maybe is time to go ask for help from lenovo forums / docs: Making a usb stick with the Lenovo recovery partit… - Lenovo Community
weird enough the repair option does not recognize the installation setup of Win7, did you try doing the same thing using the win8 boot dvd?
Cheers.
On 2013-07-17 12:16, andy0023 wrote:
> However in win recovery there is no windows os listed and unable to
> proceed further. have not found solutions on windows forums yet.
> ‘View image: IMG 1031’ (http://postimg.org/image/92t6ea6vt/)
This is a repair program. To repair a broken Windows.
What you need is second alternative; it ask that you give it the address
of the system image you should have done when you bought the computer,
probably on another disk. Did you?
They don’t give you an install disk. They give you a computer and a
program so that you create the recovery disk instead. Many people
“forget” to do it.
Lenovo users should be familiar with that.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)