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Gnu grub version 2.02 beta2-9 Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions.

That's what comes up when I turn on my computer after deleting the Ubuntu partitions when I decided to get rid of it. If I type exit in the command line that comes up, it brings me to the windows boot manager and I can get to windows, but how do I get rid of the grub thing. Please help me fix this problem and be as detailed as possible.

Courtney Banks
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The problem you are having is that grub is still installed in the MBR of the drive. Deleting the partitions does nothing to the MBR as it's in a separate reserved location. You can eliminate it by simply using your Windows installation and recovery disk to re-write the MBR How this works exactly may vary slightly dependant upon the version of Windows you are using. The recovery console commands fixboot and fixmbr come to mind.

Elder Geek
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  • I tried that and it did nothing. When i googled how to delete grub, others had he problem of grub rescue and what you suggested worked only for that. fixboot and fixmbr didn't work for me. By the way, I have windows 8.1 and might it be a problem that i deleted the partitions before I attemped to remove the grub. – Courtney Banks Jun 16 '15 at 22:18
  • That's odd. When you installed grub where did you install it? – Elder Geek Jun 16 '15 at 22:19
  • I will tr again and see if i did something wrong. By the way, I am using a recovery USB I created for this. – Courtney Banks Jun 16 '15 at 22:21
  • where the MBR lives depends on the partitioning scheme in use.. – Elder Geek Jun 16 '15 at 22:24
  • If your system has EFI instead of BIOS I think a seperate EFI boot partition is used for GRUB2 and not the MBR. – quassy Jun 16 '15 at 22:26
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    exactly what I was getting at @quassy GPT is indeed different: More here: https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Some_basics_of_MBR_v/s_GPT_and_BIOS_v/s_UEFI – Elder Geek Jun 16 '15 at 22:32
  • I have EFI, so can anyone explain to me how to get rid of grub or direct me somewhere that can please? – Courtney Banks Jun 16 '15 at 22:36
  • Again, Where did you install grub originally? Did you install it in a /boot/efi partition? – Elder Geek Jun 16 '15 at 22:40
  • I don't know where grub was installed. I did a Ubuntu/Windows 8.1 dual boot by installing ubuntu to a new partition, which I deleted. – Courtney Banks Jun 16 '15 at 22:44
  • This says BIOS but really is UEFI,: http://askubuntu.com/questions/63610/how-do-i-remove-ubuntu-in-the-bios-boot-menu-uefi And if UEFI, you should just be able to go into UEFI boot tab and move Windows entry to first boot option. – oldfred Jun 16 '15 at 23:07
  • That says i must do itin Ubuntu. I deleted ubuntu – Courtney Banks Jun 16 '15 at 23:22
  • Thanks everyone, I really appreciate you all trying, but I found the solution on another forum. It didn't work for the person who asked for the help, but I gave it try and it worked great! I downloaded Visual BCD as suggested in the other forum and selected Ubuntu and deleted it. Here's the forum – Courtney Banks Jun 17 '15 at 02:28