sanctified Veteran Posted January 16, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 16, 2004 how I can unsinstall grub as my boot manager and revert to the original w2k boot manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 It'll hurt my leetness by saying this, but I know for a fact that if you boot from the Mandrake Install Disk 1, it has a utility for doing just that. That said, never use Mandrake.... 'tis a noob-ish distro.... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypoxiaicons girl Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 lol, never mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscrash2k Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Boot from your win2k cd and go to the recovery console. From there, type fixboot fixmbr That will remove grub for you ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 suure, take Win2k advice from a guy with the name syscrash2k.... GOOD IDEA :laugh: :p Yeah, his is definately the better way to do it.... btw, in your sig, the hummingbird, 21 oz thing, is that from the book with the title something life 'The interesting lives of human cadavers' or something to that effecT? I remember reading something like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plarkster Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Boot from a boot disk - Win98, Me, anything like that, and at the command prompt type fdisk /mbr I've done it so many times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscrash2k Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Boot from a boot disk - Win98, Me, anything like that, and at the command prompt type fdisk /mbrI've done it so many times! I don't think that will work too well with 2k :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted January 16, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted January 16, 2004 I don't think that will work too well with 2k :p well, since a 9x boot disk is just a shortcut to dos then it will work in 2k, I have booted 9x boot disks in w2k before, Im going to try that. BTW, LordHatrus: its form the movie "21 grams" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plarkster Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I don't think that will work too well with 2k :p Sure it will - if you're thinking about the filesystem it doesn't matter. You can still use fdisk to view the drives partitions, therefore you can still use fdisk /mbr to erase the boot record. Then restart and Windows loads as normal. I'm running Windows XP with my drive formatted NTFS and it works fine, and I used the same method when running 2k. Im sure your method works fine as well tho, but some people have trouble booting from their cdrom whereas most people can boot from a floppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted January 17, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted January 17, 2004 that did the trick, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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