Geting rid of GRUB

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September 27th, 2004, 12:46 AM
nightcat

Geting rid of GRUB

Hi Everyone!

I had double boot system on my laptop, XP and Fedora. After haveing some trouble with XP and doing some tampering with everything I completely desroyed everything that could be destroyed :D . I did lose some interesting info, but I don't realy care about it any more. The porblem appeared when I decided to reinstal the whole thing.

I used the Recovery CD I got with the laptop for the XP setup. But after doing that I found that GRUB wouldn't allow me to start XP. I made an install of Fedora for now, nut would prefer haveing my system on dual boot.

How can I get rid of that bl..y GRUB?
September 27th, 2004, 01:01 AM
HTRegz

Hey Hey,

I'm going to assume that you simply installed GRUB to the MBR so grab a boot disk and run an fdisk /mbr. That should do the trick for ya.

Peace,
HT
September 27th, 2004, 01:33 AM
nightcat

The problem is that I don't have a boot disk, and the recovery disk I got for my laptop refuses to format the hard drive.

I'm going to get XP disk only by next Friday. What could I do till then?
September 27th, 2004, 01:38 AM
;TT

http://bootdisk.com/ for boot disks.

And doesn't Fedora come with fdisk? I know Slack does as well several other distros.
September 27th, 2004, 01:40 AM
chsh

You can download a bootdisk creation utility from: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
You should use one of the Win9x bootdisks, just boot and do fdisk /mbr as HTRegz mentioned.
September 27th, 2004, 07:18 PM
cgkanchi

Quote:

I'm going to assume that you simply installed GRUB to the MBR so grab a boot disk and run an fdisk /mbr. That should do the trick for ya.

NO!!! Do not do an fdisk /mbr from a floppy. It wipes ntldr as well as grub (whichever is installed to the mbr). Boot from an XP CD and go into the recovery console. Then, type fixboot and then fixmbr.

Cheers,
cgkanchi