clear the MBR after FC4 removal

[James Wilkinson]

lorenzo.sandini at pp.inet.fi wrote:
> Moving my FC4 install to a bigger machine, and recycling the old computer to 
> be a windows xp desktop computer.
> 
> Booted from the WinXP CD, formatted the whole drive, and hoped the MBR would 
> be overwritten and clean, but it is not.
> 
> On reboot, I am offerend to choose between Win XP and "former OS", which 
> obviously needs nowhere.
> 
> fdisk /mbr doesn't do a thing. How can I get rid of the reference to the 
> former OS in the boot menu ? I know I can edit the boot.ini, but is there any 
> trace of FC4 on the HDD that needs to be cleared ?

You're using all of the disk for Windows? (You can check in Disk
Manager.)

You can boot properly into Windows XP?

It doesn't sound like this is Grub's MBR: it sounds like it's an entry
in boot.ini.

To be honest, there's nowhere else for Fedora to hide.

Go ahead and (carefully) edit boot.ini.

Hope this helps,

James.

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