Windows 10: Boot Loader not Found on Boot Drive

My M.2 NVMe Win10 boot disk is no longer recognized as a boot disk. In the motherboard ASUS ROG Strix B650E BIOS the drive is correctly recognized mfgr and size. But the BIOS does not see a Boot Loader on it Under Boot Priority I expect to see Windows Boot Manager and is is absent. I booted from a Windows installation disk > repair computer is unable to fix the problem BIOS does see the boot loader on the USB drive. I have created a new boot disk on a different M.2 mounted both in the system. Booting from the newly created drive I can see the partitions on the

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issues with Boot Loader

esaay bcd has a repair boot loader and other boot loader options, its saved me back when i removed my second hard drive

 

How do I remove the Linux Boot Loader?

You don't actually uninstall a boot loader but replace it with another.

You cannot get Ubuntu to start on a Windows' boot loader, it needs to be GRUB (or an open source equivalent).

Any ways, to get the Windows' boot loader back up, you need to insert your WIN7 installer disk and select the repair option>startup repair. I am assuming the WIN7 will use a similar setup menu as VISTA.

Follow the guide here for step by step intructions: http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD

After that, just format the partition/disk that ubuntu is on...

 

Move Boot Loader?

I installed Ubuntu Karmatic Koala on a partition utilizing some free space i had on a 320GB drive (which also is where i store my files. I have 160GB hardrive with windows 7 on it and the boot loader for grub. I want to wipe the 160GB harddrive so i can use it for storage but doing so will erase my boot loader making the harddrive unbootable. What should i do?


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