[Techtalk] Removing Grub from MBR

gebhard dettmar gebhard.dettmar at student.hu-berlin.de
Sat Jan 22 10:01:38 EST 2005


On Friday 21 January 2005 18:25, Bruce McPeek wrote:
> Megan,
>
> If you are looking to remove grub from the Windows ME disk, try getting
> an bootable Windows DOS disk with fdisk.exe and try fdisk /mbr. This
> should rewrite the MBR with the code Windows likes.
>
> If you have the Windows ME disk and the SUSE disk in the same computer,
> you may want to wait till someone with greater knowledge speaks up. As a
> further caveat, this should work but are you prepared to have the
> Windows ME disk require a clean Windows re-install should something go
> wrong?
IMHO the suggestion is perfectly allright if she has a boot floppy for 
Suse. What I don't understand is, why grub is still in the MBR if she 
reinstalled ME. AFAIK Windows always overwrites the MBR.
> Bruce
regards
Gebhard


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