How do I remove Grub
 

I have (2) partitions on my single hard drive, XP on first and Red Hat 8.0 on the second. When I installed Red Hat, I installed Grub to handle dual boot and if I remember correctly installed Grub on first Red Hat partition not in the MBR and set XP as default.

For extra privacy I want to remove Grub so it will load just XP and use the boot disk I created to boot Red Hat. Can someone tell me step by step (in layman's terms) how to accomplish this? I'm very new to Linux so I need step by step instructions.

Thanks:)

Hi kmay,

In order to clean your mbr you can or use `fdisk /mbr` (with a dos fdisk) or use

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/HDX bs=512 count=1

in Linux, considering HDX is the destination of your disk ...

But to restore Windows boot I think you will need a bootdisk of your Windows version and then enter `sys c:`

Hope that helps ...

This will render your hard drive unbootable. Use fdisk /mbr or use your fixboot, or is it fixmbr, utilities in WinXP.

An MBR MUST have boot code on it, unless you don't want the device to be usable.