Hi all,
I need to remove my linux partition on my dual boot (Win XP & Mandrake 9.0) so that it boots straight into Windows Xp.... Not to worry, I now have a separate machine for linux :-)

The boot manager is LILO .

please tell me how to do it....what if I just format the linux partition from Windows XP? Will that screw up the boot manager?

Thanks

I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate post. My fat fingers got ahead of me...

I recently booted a dual boot system (win98/RH8) with partition Magic and deleted the Linux partitions. I then booted the system to make sure Windows was ok. It was not! Instead, Grub came up and I could not get around it. I had to reinstall Linux and let the partitions be rebuilt.

Then, upon multiple suggestions, I booted into Windows and at a DOS prompt I typed fdisk /mbr

I then rebooted and received the message "Missing operating system"

The paramedics came and resuscitated me

I then booted into Linux with a boot disk and from a terminal typed /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda

That got me back to the point where I have a dual boot system. LMAO! Still trying to figure out how to remove Linux partitions.

Not much help with your ultimate goal, I'm sure, but I thought I should share this with you.

Two things I always do when using dos fdisk
1) - use uppercase for the switches, ie: fdisk /MBR
2) - run the command twice. seriously.

Could just be superstition and luck, too.

I just tried that: fdisk /MBR (twice!)

Came up with "Missing operating system"

I don't want to step on newbie2002's post so I will leave it at that for now. If I get some help on my own post (Getting rid of GRUB in General forum) I will be sure to share the info.

Thank you and kind regards,
Thomas

this sounds stupid but, it may just work.... in your grub config make the only os windows and rerun grub. set the timeout to 0 and delete your linux partitions.... i guess this is only good if you don't care so much.


fdisk /mbr should work fine, so this is surprising... does grub do something different?