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I recently changed from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 10.04 as my default OS.

I formatted the hard drive with Windows 7 on it, but it still shows the boot loader at startup.

How do I remove the Windows 7 bootloader?

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Installing Ubuntu should make grub the default loader. Have you disabled it, or took any other steps? – Kobi Jun 3 '10 at 6:25
Are you sure it's not just showing the Windows entry on GRUB? GRUB looks something like upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/1/12/… – Matthew Flaschen Jun 3 '10 at 6:42
@Tom: Make sure that you click the checkmark next to an answer if it answers your question. – Ben Alpert May 12 '11 at 14:58
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sudo grub-update

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Install the Grub or Grub2 and you have to edit menu.lst in case of grub and grub.cfg in case of grub2 for windows selection according to the partition.

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You might need to get grub to rescan to allow it to find / not find any operating systems that have been added / removed since grub was installed. The command is update-grub, and there is a Ubuntu Howto on using Grub that you might find useful.

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