Boot to the XP recovery console and type "fixmbr".

That should restore the MBR to the same one that Windows writes when it partitions.

Jamie

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Andrew Graupe
Sent: July 30, 2004 3:16 PM
To: Alex; CLUG General
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Safely Removing Linux from a Dual-boot


Alex wrote:

>Hello Andrew,
>
>Friday, July 30, 2004, 1:40:55 PM, you wrote:
>
>AG> I have a dual boot windows/linux machine, and because I now have a
>AG> dedicated linux machine, I would like to remove the Fedora Core 1 
>AG> install and free up some hard drive space.  I have Partition Magic, so
>AG> deleting the partition will be no problem.  What I'm worried about is
>AG> safely removing GRUB and reinstalling NTLDR.  What's the best way to do
>AG> this?
>
>Load from Win98 floppy for example then FDISK /MBR, you'll get clean Dos MBR without 
>Linux loader.
>
>
>
>  
>
I have XP.  What is the XP procedure?

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