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bootmgr is missing and removing linux

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iamchel

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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