m4ch1n3g0d Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 I have been trying to fix this forever, and was wondering if anyone knew how. I used to use Redhat linux and WinXP as a dual boot. When i was doing this, i used the grub boot loader that redhat installs for you. When i installed it, it installed to the windows xp partition i am assuming. Well, now when i deleted out the linux partition and redistribute the space back to the windows partition, i cant boot into windows. I still tries to run the GRUB boot loader, and i cant locate it anywhere on my hard drive. I cant figure out how to make it stop. If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 You probably put it on your MBR (master boot record). This can be fixed with fdisk by typing fdisk /mbr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ch1n3g0d Posted December 10, 2002 Author Share Posted December 10, 2002 Alright, i did figure it out, in case anybody has ever had trouble with this. There is no way to uninstal the boot loader once it is installed. You have to install another boot loader that is uninstallable to replace it, then uninstall that boot loader. Of course, to do this, i had to re-install linux in order to access my computers hard drive at all. I finally just started browsing around other linux message boards, and found that lots of people have had this problem, but nobody seemed to really know how to get rid of grub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pagal Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 well, you couldn't be more wrong! There IS a way to fix it without going through the "way" you mentioned. You should've listened to kjordan2001's advice. All you needed was a win9x bootdisk and then after booting off the floppy, type fdisk /mbr at the command and reboot after taking the floopy out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 I finally just started browsing around other linux message boards, and found that lots of people have had this problem, but nobody seemed to really know how to get rid of grub. You have went to the wrong place. Nobody? Ha, you should have listen to the very first replied made by kjordan2001. Search for remove grub boot in the google.com and the very right answer is in the very first result and link. The answer is same as kjordan2001's answer. Therefore, always use the google.com first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioboy Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Alright, i did figure it out, in case anybody has ever had trouble with this. There is no way to uninstal the boot loader once it is installed. You have to install another boot loader that is uninstallable to replace it, then uninstall that boot loader. Of course, to do this, i had to re-install linux in order to access my computers hard drive at all. I finally just started browsing around other linux message boards, and found that lots of people have had this problem, but nobody seemed to really know how to get rid of grub. You do realize you could've just booted the WindowsXP cd, gone into the recovery console, and ran fixmbr right? :rolleyes: :blink: :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ch1n3g0d Posted December 11, 2002 Author Share Posted December 11, 2002 Unless i did it wrong, that didnt work. I was on the grub website and in the faq, the way i did it was the way they told me to. If there is a better way of doing it, like you have all said, then thats really good, because the way i was misinformed on how to do it took quite some time. Oh well, thanks alot all of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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