On Mon, November 26, 2007 8:15 pm, maverick wrote: > Hi guys a friend of mine partition his drive to try linux an now would > like to get back his space and remove grub. Does anyone know how to > re-write the mbr. > > mav > CCNA, CCA
Find yourself a copy of an MS-Dos boot disk and use "fdisk /mbr" (note, no c:). If you don't have a boot disk, you can sometimes use the bootdisk that came with XP. If you don't have that, then you can use the "Recovery Console" and use fixmbr. If you can boot into XP, then you can use "Disk Management" in the CMC and choose "Make Partition Active". Don't really recall if this will actually re-write the MBR, it's been a while since I've played with this sort of stuff. Finally, debian-like distributions have a utility called, appropriately enough, "mbr" which will create a new mbr for you. -ajb -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
