Removing Grub

[Alessandro Brezzi]

Hi Rick,

2007/9/7, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel at todo-linux.com>:
>
> El Viernes, 7 de Septiembre de 2007 06:44, Rick Bilonick escribió:
> > Unfortunately, I have to re-install Windows (from the Toshiba backup
> > disk for the computer) on a system that was running Fedora Core 6. I
> > deleted all the partitions, made a new partition, and formatted as NTFS.
> > But when I boot from the back up disk, after awhile "GRUB" appears in
> > the upper left hand corner of the screen and the install stops. I know
> > this is not a Windows mailing list, but I don't understand why GRUB
> > appears and I can't re-install. I don't see any partition for grub. How
> > can I get rid of grub?
> >
> > Rick
>
> Go to the Windows recovery console (pressing R) and just type:
>
> fixmbr
>
> That should remove grub from your system.
>
> Cheers
> Manuel


If your "restore CD" is an image (as for Toshiba notebooks), you can zap
your mbr in a live CD (F7 Live, Knoppix ...) using dd:

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

assuming your HD is SATA / SCSI allocated as sda

Another hint: are you shure to load from the restore CD and not from the HD?

HTH

-- 
Alessandro Brezzi
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