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Thread ID: 26967	2002-11-09 09:50:00	How to get rid of Linux?	Erin Salmon (626)	Press F1

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97431	2002-11-09 09:50:00	Hi, Don't abandon me having read the subject - I actually have a second PC to run Linux on, so I stop buggering the first one... I have two hard drives, a 40GB (with windows), and a 10GB (with Linux). At boot, I get the option to choose between either, and if I remove the 10GB drive (I want to use it elsewhere), this screen does not appear - instead, I get 01 01 01 01 01 printed indefinately! Changing BIOS's boot drive doesn't change this. How can I tell my computer I want to boot Windows every time? Cheers, Erin	Erin Salmon (626)
97432	2002-11-09 09:59:00	What version of WIndows is it. I'm pretty sure that you would do a fdisk /mbr to restore the mbr. THen just wipe out the linux partition, BUT wait for Graham L and the others.	-=JM=- (16)
97433	2002-11-09 20:00:00	yep That will fix it.	roofus (483)
97434	2002-11-09 21:50:00	Hi, Lets just get this exactly right, I've made booboos with Linux enough :) Create a boot floppy (ordinary windows one with Fdisk on it) Boot from the disk, and type: Fdisk /mbr That will wipe the master boot record, and should then boot windows? Is that foolproof? :) Erin	Erin Salmon (626)
97435	2002-11-09 23:47:00	Just boot to your Windows drive as normal, then shut down to DOS (If it's ME you'll need to use a boot disk) and yeah, then just fdisk /mbr. It's a completely different method if you're using Win XP though. Mike.	Mike (15)
97436	2002-11-10 01:00:00	Nice to see that caveat, Mike. "Foolproof?", Erin asks. Microsoft have spawned a very high class of fools. :D FDISK /MBR is the standard fix for "DOS based" Windows. The clever ones, I don't know. If the linux uses LILO (and it's this which is coughing on you when you remove the Linux disk ... ) you should be able to just boot Linux (single user --- "boot: linux 1") or login as root, and "lilo -u". If you have Grub, I don't know ... it didn'thave this option when I looked at it, but they may have added it. (try "grub --help" or "man grub"). The lilo "-u" restores the boot sector which existed before lilo installed its one. That should cope with XP etc, too.	Graham L (2)
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