I have a netbook with a XP/SuSE dualboot and I want to get rid of SuSE, I have EASEUS partition and I know thats probably the easiest way to get rid of it, but the problem is the loading screen, seeing as im on a netbook, the xp disk is out of the question and I lack a usb cd drive, how would I go about removing grub?

Hi Da_boobster;

When you got your netbook, what was installed on it? Windows, linux, both? I'm not familiar with netbooks so I'm making some guesses about your system. Was windows on it when you bought it or added later? Same for linux?

Assuming windows was preinstalled it should have had a recovery tool of some kind, either appearing during boot or hidden in a hidden partition.

Please post the output of "fdisk -l" from a terminalThat will show us what the partitions are and what type they are.

How was linux installed? Did you find someone who had it pre-installed? Again, I'm assuming it has no optivcal drive to install from. Did you make a backup of the system to include the MBR when it was new? I'm asking these questions because the answers will affect further advice on how to restore windows boot.

Tom

The easy way for me would be use a usb memory stick.

Do you mean you want to get rid of grub in the MBR? Or you want to get rid of openSUSE and use the reclaimed disk space?

There is no real reason to get rid of grub as a bootloader. You can simply set it to boot Windows, write it to the MBR, and you should be set. In fact it already knows how to boot Windows since this is a dual-boot machine, so you just need to set it to do so by default.

1. sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst and move the Windows entry to the top of the list.
1a. if you are getting rid of openSUSE, remove its entries.

2. write the new grub config to the MBR like this:
% sudo grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

3. Reboot. You should boot to Windows by default.

4. If it goes sour, make sure to have a USB stick handy with openSUSE or some other live edition to get you out of trouble.

Once you have Windows booting cleanly by default, you can reformat the openSUSE partition as NTFS and it should load as D: under XP.

Hope this helps!

If you remove Suse and do not install grub in a separate partition you will loose the option to boot with grub unless you install another linux distro. I am not a windows man but there are numerous articles telling you how to restore windows boot using usb stick. Just use your google.

the netbook came pre-installed with windows, and I installed suse via network, and I have grub installed as a separate partition. Im in an Information technology class and being as Im on break i cant really have help from the teacher. I want to completely remove grub and have it boot to windows like it would before grub was installed.