I installed Mandrake (probably 7.2 although I can't quite remember now) a
few months ago for Uni work on a secondary hard drive, running Win98 on the
other. All was fine and dandy until I realised I a) never got it running
properly ($%&* software modem) and b) hardly used it any more. In addition I
needed the drive for other uses so I Fdisk-ed the lot. I am now taken into a
grub shell on boot-up (where, incidentally, the 'quit' command doesn't work)
although I can get into Windows from there. 'Ah', you're thinking, 'Fdisk
/mbr is the answer'. Unfortunately I have a DDO (Dynamic Drive Overlay) Bios
patch on the primary Windoze drive so I can actually use it and taking out
the MBRs might (although I don't actually know this) cause me to lose
absolutely everything :(.
SO: Is it possible to take out Grub using (basically) the grub shell and/or
DOS without removing the DDO?
If not, can it be done from Linux?
If so, I assume that reinstalling Mandrake from the original boot floppy and
CDs (which I haven't got with me right now or I'd have probably already
tried it...) will fix it temporarily?
Finally, if I reinstall Windows on the primary drive would it re-write the
MBRs
and so wipe GRUB from existance? Any ideas?
I think that's everything... :)
Thank you.
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That is All. <*>
Mike Davis -> m.davis(at)ucl.ac.uk
