Restore Windows Boot

[Chuck Slate]

Hi David,

I can think of two ways this might work:

1) The easiest way is to boot off your favorite DOS or Windows boot disk
and run "fdisk /mbr"  Assuming you had Windows on first, it will put the
old boot loader back.

2) If that doesn't work, you can create a Windows repair disk and boot
off that.  It will eventually prompt you to "repair" the boot sequence. 
When it does this, Windows will now boot.  Unfortunately, how the repair
process works varies from Windows version to version, so the best advice
I can give you is to search the MS knowledgebase (microsoft.com).  I've
done it a bunch of times; it's simple the 2nd time you do it.  :0)

Hope this helps.




Chuck




On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:54, David Cartwright wrote:
> 
> I want to remove a hard drive from my computer and replace with
> another. I have a grub dual boot setup with linux rh9 on the drive I
> want to replace. How do I remove grub and restore the original windows
> single operating system boot so windows will boot normally after I
> remove the hard drive that has linux on it. I plan to reinstall linux
> on the new drive after I install it; I just don't want to screw up and
> lose access to my windows drive during the removal and replacement
> process. I found a few strings re. removal of old kernals but nothing
> specific to safe linux/grub/dual boot removal and restoration of
> original windows single boot setup.
>  
> David
> 
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