NeoMetal

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Ok, I had my other computer partitioned with a small FAT partition for the boot at the begininng of the disk, then a windows XP part and a smaller linux partition. The bootloader was Grub, and would work fine to boot windows and linux, until I decided to use that computer just for windows and move linux elsewhere. I used a part. magic to remove the linux partition and expand my windows partion into the [now] free space. Now, this seemed to go fine, until I restarted my computer and just get the word "Grub". I guess it was stupid of me to think it would be this easy, but I thought that would happen is that I would just get an error if I tried to boot to linux, but I realize now that I apparantly killed my bootloader. I was tring to use the Suse install to rewrite a bootloader on the the beginning of the disk, but couldn't seem to get it to work without actually installing linux which I can't really do anyways because there isn't much free space left (a couple hundred megs....I might be able to do something with that?) Anyways, if there is a boot disk type thing I can use that will just let me boot to windows that would help right now as a temporary solution at least.


Thanks!

michaelk

Use the XP install CD and boot to recovery mode. Then run the fixmbr utility. This will remove grub from the MBR.

bigrigdriver

There are many posts on these boards about that topic. If I remember correctly, you can fix the xp bootloader by booting to command-line mode in xp, and enter the command 'fdisk \mbr'. Don't quote me on that command. Do some research. But it's about that easy.

NeoMetal

Thanks, I'll try that

NeoMetal

Crap.....I'm an idiot. It asks for an admin password, which is apparantly not the same as the password I have set for the main admin user, and I don't recall ever setting any other admin passwords....

NeoMetal

So I guess I'm doomed basically?