I could be wrong, but I think he already got Windows reinstalled, but
he still has grub installed in the MBR and grub is looking for his /
boot partition (which he already blew away)... thus the grub error.
- Chris
On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Neil Schelly wrote:
It seems you're getting a lot of help with the MBR, but that isn't
what you're
looking for. You have/had Linux on there and want to install
Windows over it
instead.
As far as I know, you just have to boot from the Windows install
disc and it
will be more than happy to just take over the hard disk regardless
of whether
or not your MBR or partition tables are clear.
In your case, you said that instead of booting from the Windows
installer
disc, you saw a GRUB message instead of the Windows bootup. That
would
indicate to me that your BIOS is set to boot from the hard disk
before the
CD-ROM.
So clearing your MBR will probably make the BIOS try and boot from
the hard
disk, fail, and then boot from the CD-ROM. But you may find it a
whole lot
easier to tell your BIOS to look to the CD-ROM first.
-N
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