How to unistall Linux, or change GRUB Boot Loader??? HELP PLEASE!!

[Mule]

I have installed WinME, Win2K, and Linux Mandrake 7.2 on my system. Now I'm getting a new system, and I'm gonna donate this old crap to my parents. It has a 30GB HD, so space really isn't a problem, but I doubt they will ever use Linux. Anyways When I boot up my computer, I get the GRUB Bootloader thing come up and I wanted to know how to change the bootloader to make windows it's default??

I was even thinking of just getting rid of it and I didn't know what I had to do? Do I just delete the Linux partitions? or is there a better way to uninstall linux?

Also If i just delete the partitions, then won't that GRUB bootloader thing still be there?

Need some help please!

 

[Damaged]

Well, you're going to need to delete the ext2fs partitions if you want to use them for other data.

To get rid of the boot loader usually you can boot with a Win boot disk and run fdisk /mbr...usually.

 

[jtshaw]

fdisk /mbr will kill grub. Or at least it should...

 

[chiwawa626]

How do you make GRUB load Windows on default?

 

[chiwawa626]

i think i know how, mabey ill show u later

 

[joshInAlaska]

It's quite easy to edit your menu.lst file so that on boot-up, the grub menu will have windows as your default. I recommend that after changing to your /boot/grub directory, you first do this:

$ mkdir backup
$ cp menu.lst menuLst.bak
$ mv menuLst.bak backup

Now, however you want to edit your menu.lst file is up to you. I use vi, but if you are more comfortable in emacs, or other linux text editor to make the changes, that's cool too.

Once you enter your menu.lst file for editing, you'll see that there is a paragraph that will look like the following:

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/grub.once

A couple of sections down, you'll see the paragraph for your windows selection. However you want to move it, through means of typing manually or copying and pasteing, do what's most comfortable for you. Basically, you want to move that section to the top, above the linux section. Once that's complete, you'll save your menu.lst file and exit your editing program. On reboot, you should have a new default at the top of your grub menu.

- Josh

 

[joshInAlaska]

Whoops, I've made a mistake on what to look for in your menu.lst file. You'll want to move the windows paragraph after the line that says:

default 0
and before the paragraph that says something like:

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1