ad.J Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Okay, last time I tried to take out Linux, I was locked out from my whole system cause GRUB was still there. I want all of my 76gb back. So how can I delete my Linux partitions, GRUB, and resize my NTFS partition with PM7.0? My whole thing is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Have PM take over your MBR so then GRUB is gone, then just delete and resize. Then you can probably take PM out of the MBR somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad.J Posted November 30, 2002 Author Share Posted November 30, 2002 :blink: Uh sorry... but I don't know what you just said. How do I let PM take over my boot loader? Can't I just "uninstall" GRUB or something? I need to know like... how to do it step-by-step. Cuase I don't want to lose all of my stuff (again...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 no you cant just uninstall gurb, what you can do is delete your mbr (format mbr) if i'm correct then you can do a repair install with xp to get it back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irasnyd Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 The easy way would be to delete the linux partitions using PM. Then to restore the Windows MBR, get a DOS bootdisk, boot from it, and run: fdisk /mbr That will restore your MBR to the default windows one. Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagata Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 fdisk /mbr used to format the master boot record. No idea what it is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ch1n3g0d Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Yah, i ran into this too, resizing my partitions. The pda manual takes you through it step by step on how to redistribute the space back to the ntfs partition. If that isnt working, i dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad.J Posted November 30, 2002 Author Share Posted November 30, 2002 Meh... I'll just do a complete reformat in January. I have 2 computers, so i'll just backup onto my other one. Thanks for all your help all, but I needed a reformated anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 The easy way would be to delete the linux partitions using PM. Then to restore the Windows MBR, get a DOS bootdisk, boot from it, and run:fdisk /mbr That will restore your MBR to the default windows one. Good Luck! delete the linux partitions with PM, then run fdisk /mbr thats correct and then reboot and do a xp repair install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad.J Posted November 30, 2002 Author Share Posted November 30, 2002 Excuse this rather odd question: but how do I get/make a DOS boot disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Use DISKPART do delete all non-Windows partition. I wouldn't recommend using fdisk since you use NTFS file system. Then use FIXMBR to overwrite your MBR. DISKPART and FIXMBR are avaiable under recovery console. To use recovery console you must boot your system from Windows XP CD-ROM. After deleting non-Windows partitions and overwriting MBR use Partition Magic to resize your NTFS partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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