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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I tried a Win98 boot disk and it doesn’t
even recognize that disk C: exists at all…</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jason Staudenmayer<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 07, 2004
8:51 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'General Red Hat Linux
discussion list'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: WinXP & RedHat
co-existence nightmare.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>get a DOS boot disk with
format.exe on it. I use a WIN98 cd. Then boot to a DOS prompt and run 'fdisk
/mbr c:'</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>that will format the
master boot record then re-install winxp</span></font></p>
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Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Donald Tyler
[mailto:dtyler@frazerbilt.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 07, 2004
9:48 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> redhat-list@redhat.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> WinXP & RedHat
co-existence nightmare.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I tried to install RedHat on a separate
hard drive on my machine, and use the Grub loader to choose between Windows and
Linux, but it completely screwed up WinXP and it wouldn't boot no matter what I
did.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I had to reinstall windows, but the
only disk I had was a restore CD (Not the original OS CD). I did that and it
seemed to fix the problem, but now WinXP is taking literally hours to install
anything.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have decided to temprorily remove
RedHat from the computer. But I can seem to get rid of the Grub loader. I have
removed the second hard drive that Linux is on, and I have re-partitioned and
formatted the primary hard drive that the Grub loader and windows XP is on. But
when I load the machine I get a Grub loader error. I have no earthly idea how
the hell it can still be on the hard drive when I re-partitioned and formatted
it.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Can anyone tell me how to remove the
Grub loader from the hard drive so that I can have a completely clean WinXP
machine?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks.</span></font></p>
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