[Techtalk] Removing Grub from MBR

Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon at thenilgiris.com
Sat Jan 22 16:12:23 EST 2005


On Friday 21 Jan 2005 10:03 pm, Megan Duchamps wrote:
> I have a laptop that shared Windows ME and SuSE. Yesterday, I reinstalled
> Windows ME on the entire HD. Relax, SuSE is moving to another, bigger disk
> ;) Well, the whole recovery CD process worked fine, until it rebooted. I
> got a grub prompt, and am not able to get past it. There are some commands
> there when I type help or hit tab at the prompt, but I cannot execute them.
> I don't know if the question is appropriate here, but how do I remove grub,
> or the remnants of it from the MBR? Is there some sort of free utility that
> is able to do that?

do:
fdisk /MBR before you install windows (you need dos fdisk)
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kg

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