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Quick GRUB question

Cellulose

Cellulose

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I recently removed both my Linux and Vista partition as I need to restore my laptop to Factory settings. For some reason I can't reinstall Vista (from the recovery "Tech Guys" partiton) however.

I need to either hide GRUB or remove it, so when the laptop boots it attempts (without any evidence of Linux) to open the Windows Partition (and so boots into Vista recovery).

All the tutorials I have found require Linux or Windows to be installed (My Ubuntu live cd refuses to open X now).

Any tips?

Thanks 🙂

edit: I tried # dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1 with a live cd but it has no effect.
 
As long as you replaced sdX with the appropriate drive name that dd command should have wiped out the MBR, but you'll still have to reinstall one after that in order for the machine to boot.
 
Unfortunately no matter which drive I use the output values are always 0. I tried with a Windows XP cd as well to fixmbr (although I dont have any Windows installed) to run fixmbr but its asking for an admin password of my "apparent" Windows installation.

 
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