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| Thread ID: 34254 | 2003-06-08 07:25:00 | Removing a Linux dual Boot program from the system. | Waltzzz (3972) | Press F1 |
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| 150892 | 2003-06-10 00:15:00 | OK. I was assured by someone that just fdisk /mbr would then return the default windows boot - but that may be wrong. Still, so far i have not been able to find an fdisk that works on my XP - just as well probably. I am running XP Home and am now looking for the Recovery Console. It seems i need an Administrators Password - which I dont have. Not sure if Home edition even has it! I will look for a FAQ on this somewhere - but any help appreciated This is all a bit of a saga to get rid of a boot program that really is no bother, but I am on a learning curve that I am not ready to slide off. |
Waltzzz (3972) | ||
| 150893 | 2003-06-10 01:34:00 | Definately don't use Fdisk /mbr on the XP machine. The Administrator password may be the one you usually sign on when booting but you should never use this for your normal work. You should create another account giving yourself Super User rights. When in the recovery console I think the command is Fixmbr but there is help for the commands. You will find the recovery console if you boot off the cd as long as you don't just have a recovery cd. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 150894 | 2003-06-10 02:17:00 | fdisk /mbr is overkill, this is linux! even having to reboot the machine is rare, let alone reinstalling etc. if you hadnt wiped the linux install you could simply reun grub (or lilo) with a remove option... man grub. alternatively, boot a linux install CD in rescue mode to do this. backing up the MBR is yet another thing MS never realised we might want to do, ive used ranish partition manager to do this, theres also a shareware prog called active partition recovery which does this. havent had to restore any yet... if you do fdisk, it will restore it to win9X setup and you will have to use the install CD in recovery console to restore the XP boot loader (NTLDR). course, you could just back it up, i think these files on the C: are enough, (boot.ini ntdetect.com ntldr bootsect.dos), they are hidden by the OS. if anyone knows what the essential XP boot files are, id be interested. |
allanh (1687) | ||
| 150895 | 2003-06-10 02:25:00 | Ive always used FDISK /MBR on my Win2K/XP and RedHat Multi-Boot... Worked fine every time Ive tried it, including a Win98 and RH8 only Dual-Boot...!?! Doze installs its boot manager onto the first sector of the boot partition doesnt it? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 150896 | 2003-06-10 02:26:00 | BTW> Boot.ini and NTLDR :-) There may be a few others.. But I KNOW those are the most essential :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 150897 | 2003-06-10 06:22:00 | Has Grub now got an uninstall option as I have always used Lilo because of this. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 150898 | 2003-06-10 08:41:00 | Im not too sure, Ive only ever had to re-install it, but all Ive ever done is FDisk /mbr? | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 150899 | 2003-06-10 09:06:00 | At one time I was triple booting and being able to use Lilo's uninstall option saved a lot of grief. Had one play with Grub until I discovered it didn't have an uninstall option but that was a while ago. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 150900 | 2003-06-10 09:49:00 | I may have misled a little with the title of this topic - it should read: Removing a Linux dual Boot program from a now totally XP system. I am now trying to get to the XP Recovery Console - but having password problems. Have started separate new Topic: "Administrator password In XP Home Edition" |
Waltzzz (3972) | ||
| 150901 | 2003-06-14 13:52:00 | I am not much further ahead with "Administrator password In XP Home Edition" - and further behind with my machine. After the SP1 update I can now no-longer log into my machine - I am on my partner's computer here writing this. I am no longer greeted with the RH dual boot window from lilo - with the choice of OS - rather I get straight into lilo which predicably stops and displays the letters LI I guess there are only two ways around this. Reinstall Linux and then do the propper uninstall i should have done in the first place or reinstall windows. Any other options? Right now I can boot into Linux off a Knopix CD. Perhaps i can access the Boot program from there and remove it? I will need the instructions as I have no clue how to do that and it was not obvious after a bit of a poke around. Any ideas? |
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