un-dual-booting?

[unfalliblekrutch]

i currently have my hard drive on my laptop in 4 partitions, 1 for windows, 1 for linux, 1 for linux swap, and 1 for data files. I dual boot linux/XP so that i could play around with linux. However, I find that i never really use linux on it, so I want the 6 or so gigs i partitioned off back, since every gig is precious on my tiny 40gb laptop HD. However, the current bootloader(GRUB, i think) is on the linux partition. If i just delete the linux and linux swap, will windows still boot?

 

[n0cmonkey]

fdisk /mbr
fixboot (?)
fixmbr

 

[bersl2]

^^^

 

[TGS]

Yes you can. noc's way makes it boot with the windows bootloader, but as long as you have the correct info in the grub.conf it will boot fine regardless.

I did a gentoo install, and left it there for a long while until I formatted the partition. Grub still worked fine to boot Win2k.

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

alright, i got it to work using the windows bootloader. The reason i can't use grub is because grub was installed on my linux partition, which i was getting rid of.