bootmgr is missing and removing linux

[iamchel]

I recently installed a new cooler and durring the process of removing the mobo I changed the order of my ssd's and harddrives happhazardly. Upon booting up I was welcomed by an error 17. I went into the bios and swapped the drives around to how I had it previously but now when I try to launch windows I'm getting 'bootmgr is missing'.

128GB ssd - windows 7
40GB ssd - storage
36GB raptor - fedora
1TB wd - partitioned for storage/apps

Now I'm planning on removing the 40GB ssd and raptor but before I do that I want to know what the best way to go about doing it is. Would simply overriting grub fix it? I don't mind if I won't be able to get back into my linux installation since I plan on removing the drive shortly anyways. My only concern is that the 128GB ssd and 1TB hdd are working as they were before.

 

[denis280]

Get in Bios under boot option.and see if all drive are there.and also look at the boot sequence.

 

[iamchel]

I did that previously the issue is that I don't recall the order the drives were in before. I'm getting into fedora perfectly fine but Windows is giving me the error above.

 

[paul878]

Try boot up with the windows 7 dvd and do a repair.

 

[iamchel]

I tried that initially but it didnt do anything. I ended up just removing all the drives other than the one with windows 7 and my 1tb storage drive and restored the windows 7 mbr since I won't be using the linux installation any more. Thanks though.

 

[KompuKare]

So grub works on for fedora? Then surely you should be able to add Win7 mbr too it by following some grub tutorial?

Multi-boot is messier than it should be: before Vista/7 I preference was to have ntldr load linux etc and in a way that still works in that there tutorials for using bcdedit to add linuxes. The ideal would a GUI grub installer which works of something bootable like partedmagic.

The real problem is that Microsoft decided to change everything with Vista+ and the grub authors decided likewise with GRUB2. Change everything for the sake of change seems to common thing at the moment: Win8, Office 2007+, Unity and so on: I must be getting old but in all those cases I prefer the old versions.