Removing Linux...

sluthy

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Sep 25, 2005
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I've currently got my 'spare space' 200GB hard drive full to the hilt, and about 50GB of that space is partitioned for my Fedora 4 install I had wanted to experiment with a while back but I've hardly touched, and probably won't touch again. I'll probably start fresh on my next PC (a month or two maybe) with Ubuntu.

But in the meantime, I want to reformat my Linux partitions to reclaim for Windows space. Easy enough, but I'm uneasy about what to do with my boot sector or bootloader. Currently, when I start the PC, the blue Fedora GRUB screen comes up and defaults to Windows after 10 seconds, unless I press something and scroll down to one of the various "Red Hat Fedora kernel 2.6.10....." entries (it made a new one every time I updated all packages, frustrating). When it starts Windows, it comes up with something like "bootloader +1" for about 10-15 seconds (something I typed into grub.conf to get it to load Windows initially, can't remember specifics).

How do I fix this to simply boot into Windows normally, can I fix the boot partition to default to normal, or what do I do? It's XP Home, if that matters.
 

Hyperblaze

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What you can also do is get access to a program called fdisk.

It's on Hiren's Boot Disk and MS DOS Disks (Only reason why I still have my copy of them)

On the command line type "fdisk /mbr". This will fix up your problem :)