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Uninstalling Grub Boot Loader

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Jaimie

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I haven't touched my Linux partition since I installed it and I want to clean that out, along with uninstalling GRUB, which is prohibiting me from changing my Hard Drive configuration. I am concerned that simply running fixmbr or fixboot will erase the partition table, and thus clear my data partition, which would REALLY REALLY REALLY be a bad thing... I was wondering if this worry was justified. Thanks


Hard DriveConfiguration:
HD0 - Windows XP Pro
HD1, Part1 - NTFS, Data
HD1, Part2 - Linux
HD1, Part3 - Linux Swap

 
Yes, the worry is justified.

Whenever you play around with bootloaders, there is the potential for the drive/installations to go ape.

The only way that is nigh on sure to get things right, in my experience is to use a third party os/boot loader BEFORE you install the 2nd OS.
 
From my experience I have used a Win98 Boot Disk and at the A:\fdisk /mbr command. It removed
Grub and restored the WinXP boot loader. I was then able to restore Grub by installing a new distro or
doing a repair from Knoppix Live Cd. I am sure that you can run into trouble but I never experienced any
after doing this procedure a number of times.
 
fixmbr will not touch the partition table, it'll just overwrite the MBR with the default MS bootloader.
 
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