Getting rid of GRUB

Abomb · 01-24-2008, 05:17 PM

Hey guys,

So I have two hard drives, one has Windows XP and the other one has Ubuntu and my boot manager is GRUB. I want to format the hard drive with Ubuntu to just NTFS and then go back to using Window's boot manager.

My question, can I just put in the XP disk and use fixmbr then just format the second hard drive using the same disk? Or do I risk losing information on the hard drive?

Thanks for any input

trickykid · 01-24-2008, 05:18 PM

fdisk the MBR will do the job.

reddazz · 01-24-2008, 07:38 PM

If using the Win XP disc, then fixmbr should get rid of grub. If using dos discs, then you need to use "fdisk /mbr".

Abomb · 01-24-2008, 07:58 PM

Thanks for the quick replies. Should I also use the Win XP disk to format the Linux drive or is there a better method for doing that, perhaps in the Windows environment?

Thanks

reddazz · 01-24-2008, 08:01 PM

If you are formatting the drive back to NTFS, then I don't see anything wrong with just using your Windows XP disc.