Recent content by Gaz

Worked. Thankyou!

Okay, nice one, thanks - I've had a fiddle with EasyBcd and I'm halfway there; I've got windows controlling the mbr with a windows boot black screen when I turn on the PC which gives me the option of selecting 8.1 or Ubuntu. If I select Ubuntu, it proceeds to grub as it was before so it's...

My bad, poorly worded question. Yeah, I know that grub is required. I meant that I'd like Windows to provide me with the blue screen to select an operating system (defaulting to Windows 8 after 15 seconds if nothing is pressed) and then, if I were to select Ubuntu, it'd go through into grub...

I have a Windows 8.1/Ubuntu dual boot system. Can anyone give me instructions on how to get rid of the GRUB loader to end up with Windows as the default loading OS that will give me the Windows blue 'Please choose an operating system' screen when I turn the system on? Thanks in advance!

How about using a windows 7 machine to download the upgrade to 8.1 tool and then make a bootable media from it?

Just sharing in case people have been having the same problem following a Store update to 8.1. After downloading and installing via the store, a restart shows a bluescreen displaying: "Recovery Your PC needs to be repaired There isn't enough memory available to create a ramdisk device Error...