[Techtalk] Removing Grub from MBR

Peter Samuelson peter at p12n.org
Mon Jan 24 08:49:11 EST 2005


[Mike]
> fdisk /mbr will take care of it but you will probably have to
> reinstall ME again, as it will be a fresh mbr and wont know where to
> boot.

Not true.  fdisk /mbr doesn't touch the partition table, just the
*rest* of the MBR.  The partition table includes an "active" flag on
one partition, and the MS-DOS MBR uses this flag to decide which
partition to boot.  I suppose it's conceivable, but doubtful, that
Windows ME would forget to set its own active flag.


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