Removal of OS help

Mitchell Brown mbgb14 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 20:24:50 UTC 2006


>
> Assuming the problem is that grub is now part of the ubuntu install and
> therefore you get problems if you just wipe ubuntu clean, then...
>
> Put the windows install CD into the drive and boot to it. Press f8
> (usually) to get extended options, then boot in rescue mode. In rescue
> mode you should get a command line (cli), in the cli type
>
> fixmbr
>
> This will give windows full control of the Master Boot Record by making
> a new copy based on the windows bootable partitions it finds. CD out,
> restart. Then you can use windows disk management to reformat the space
> freed up by not using ubuntu.
>
> Do some research on fixmbr first, I give no promises, but it always does
> it for me.
>
> Duncan


Haha thats *exactly* what I just said :P
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