Good work, Tim.

HTH,

Twayne`


n ,
Tim Meddick typed:
I am so pleased! (told you that you'd get there in the
end!)
Concerning the bogus menu entry on startup.....

When you ran the FIXBOOT C: command, on your merry travels,
Windows re-wrote your BOOT.INI file that deals with the
start(up) menu (which lives in the root of your [C:] system
drive) adding any valid operating systems it could detect
at the time.
When you did this, the UBUNTU partition STILL EXISTED, but
now does not, so if you did selected this option at boot
now, I very much doubt you'd get anything but an system
error.
To get rid of it, either :

1). Goto "Control Panel" - "System Properties" -
"Advanced" tab - "Startup and Recovery" (Settings button).

...and in the "System Startup" [top] section, press on the
"Edit" button.
Highlight and delete the ONE line containing the word
"Ubuntu" and save / close.
- you won't see the "Ubuntu" menu item on startup any more.


2). Type MSCONFIG into the "Run" box on the start menu and
click on the BOOT.INI "tab".

Press the button marked "Check all boot paths" This should
result in all invalid entries in the menu to be removed.

Press [ok] to save and exit.

3). Open a command prompt, and type the following
command[s] :
attrib -r -h -s c:\boot.ini
notepad c:\boot.ini

...then edit the file (as in 1), removing the line that
contains the word "Ubuntu" and then "save" and exit. Again, the offending
menu entry will be gone....
==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Carl" wrote in message
...
On Apr 29, 10:23 am, John John - MVP
wrote:
Tim Meddick wrote:
I rarely use either the MAP or the DISPART command and if
I have a major problem, similar to yours, I always use an
M$-DOS boot disk.

The difference being that the DOS command FDISK - does
return volume labels (where they exist) on partitions.

The thing is, without knowing which partition is which -
you might be deleting the netbook's recovery partition -
should it have one.

My best guess would be :

-: Partition1 EISA Utilities 6150 MB = RECOVERY
PARTITION C: Partition2 NTFS 68653 MB = WINDOWS PARTITION
E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB = UBUNTU PARTITION

Begs the question of why would Ubuntu be installed on a
proprietary NTFS partition?

D: Partition1 KINGSTON [FAT] = YOUR USB DRIVE

.....so, you could try deleting E: Partition3 NTFS
39622 MB ....(unless you know different - that this is
NOT the UBUNTU partition!)

My evidence for this is that as you are actually logged
in to C:\Windows while you are running Recovery Console,
the partition before it must have been there before or at
the installation of the C: partition - it has no
drive-letter associated with it, so it's probably a
hidden partition - usually this means the recovery
partition. That just leaves Partition3 (E

I think that at this stage finding the Active status of
the partitions might help. Carl (or Bob) would need to
create a Windows 98 Startup disk on USB and use Fdisk to
see what is going on with the active partition flag. I
haven't ever made a W98 bootable USB stick but a quick
search on the net leads to sites like this with all the
information and downloads for the necessary files:
http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm
How to Create a bootable USB Memory Key

You should be able to toggle the active partition with
Fdisk but I would also stick PowerQuest's (Symantec}
16-bit PtEdit utility on the
stick:http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/tools.htm John

Gentlemen -

I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!!

It worked!

I cannot thank you enough.

Here's what I did:

I deleted the E partition.

I ran MAP again

Returned:
? NTFS 6150MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
C: NTFS 68653MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2
F: NTFS 39621MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition3
D: FAT16 963MB \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1

I removed the USB flash drive and restarted, and it booted
normally, into Windows and all appears fine.

If you two would bear with me, I will summarize all of the
guidance, step by step, that you give me and post it at the end of
this thread plus post it on the Samsung Netbook site for others having
this problem.

I know there are many others with the problem because when
I Googled the GRUB problem, I got multiple hits but none of them
worked for me and most relied on an external HD and booting from a
Windows CD.
Tim said it could be done w/o an external HD and he was
right.
I'll try to write my summary this weekend and post it back
here.
BTW, just to be sure, shut down my computer and started
again and again, all is well.

My deepest thanks,
Carl

BTW, when I start up , I am offered the choice of booting
up in either M/S Windows XP Home Edition or Ubuntu, so there must be
something on the HD that I need to get rid of in order to weed Ubuntu
entirely from my HD, no?