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I am trying to install Windows 7 on an old system, which had Ubuntu 12.10 on it. I accessed the drive with a cradle and deleted the partitions off of it, then formatted it to NTFS (For Windows). Popped it back in the system and tried to boot from CD to install Windows 7 and I get:

error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue >

How did GRUB even survive the formatting and how can I get rid of it for good so I can do a fresh install of Win 7?

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A. Franco
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Format the drive using gparted and creating a new partition table in the MBR format. That will completely wipe the disk of grub, though it really won't affect your ability to boot to the disk drive, try pressing f12 at boot when the bios screen comes up and select cd drive. Wiping grub off the disk is done by the windows installer, and it does nothing to obstruct the cd boot process.

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