Deleting GRUB & Format HD

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Linux Software 434 This topic was started by anzavic, 2004-11-22 20:08. Last reply by danleff, 2004-11-23 11:16

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anzavic

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2004-11-22 21:08

After spenting almost two months trying to figure out MD Linux 10.1 to load, in the end still nothing works. I get one error message after another and now it's the partitions, the screen, the video card, the hard drive. I didn't go into this without checking the software out first and then the system it was going to go on.

Now, I'm trying to go back to WinME and have run into another problem. It appears that GRUB is on my hard drive and has taken up a lot of room. So much so that WinME won't load. I've tried to go to my C: drive and FORMAT or use FDisk, I get "Invalid Media type reading drive C...

So how do I get Grub off my system so I can move on?

What a mess!

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Removing an OS from the GRUB boot loader.

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matttah

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2004-11-22 22:23

Ok, i'm thinking grub is not your problem. grub is installed in the mbr. it is tiny. you havn't delted your linux yet
what you can do is this
fdisk /dev/hda(supposing you have ide drive and it is your first one).
then type
d and delete all the partitions
restart with windows cd in
install..and grub will disappear.
Daum

danleff

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2004-11-23 02:41

...and just to clarify what matttah is getting at, it is not that Grub has taken up the space, it is that Windows can not read a partition that has been formatted with Linux partitions.

So, Windows thinks that there is no space on the hard drive (at least that it can read). Any disk formatting utility can erase the partitions that you made with Mandrake, be it PartitionMagic, any linux install with the fdisk utility, a Win 98 or ME boot disk (windows version of fdisk), or disk partitioning a utility made by the hard drive company that made the drive.