Reinstall Windows and GRUB Problem

well here it go's iv had linux on my other computer for awile and i have never had any problems like this befor but i wanted to put windows back on it so i could put some games on it, well when i thro my windows disk in it and rebooted it wouldent boot from the cd, so i tryed a fue coppies of the windows cd and even the fedora cd and my knoppix but nuthin would boot so i switched out a fue cd drives and still nuthin would boot so im lost any one have any tips??

Go into the bios and make sure your CD drive is first on the boot order.

ya i did that i even turned everything in the boot off so it would just boot from cd and i also tryed go to the boot menu on start up and telling it to boot from cd

ok ok i found out my computer is booting with GRUB now how can i make it so my computer doesent boot with GRUB so i can boot from my windows cd??

Go into your bios & change your setting to look to the CD ROM first, and then to the HD for boot records. As far as I know, GRUB can't stop your computer from booting from CD, only tell it to boot from HD first.

ok come on now i tryed all of that iv told it to boot from the cd but it wouldent boot from any cd i tryed, and iv changed cd drives and still wont boot it just searches for a boot record from cd and then go's in to this grub menu, is there any one out there that knows whats up, please help

How many CD/DVD drives do you have in your system?

only one, iv takin it out and put difrent ones in to see if thares something wrong with the cd drive and theres not cuz even ones i know work wernt working

I ran into that problem - well sort of. I had a system with two optical drives. Tried to install an operating system on it. Thought the cd was a bad boot image, but I had just built it - and rebuilt it. Still no boot, I try the disks in another system and they work fine. Remove the one drive, still nothing, swap drives - still nothing.

I reflash the BIOS and *boom* worked perfectly.


Try reflashing the bios.