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Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on removing linux from my machine. I currently have a dual boot windows XP/Suse laptop. However, I need the space on the linux partition for windows applications and additional storage. I'd rather not spend the 70 dollars for partition magic if I can avoid it. Also, I'd like to remove the boot manager as well, so that when I turn the comp on it boots straight to windows. Does anyone have any ideas? Please include as much detailed instruction as you can, I'm a newbie. I really appreciate it.
at the dos prompt, it will overwrite my MBR. Does it replace it with a backup of the MBR or something? I want to be sure that my machine will boot after I do this, since I'd rather avoid having to reinstall the operating system, etc.
I dont beileve it replaces it with a backup.... THere shouldnt be to much to go wrong when using that command tho... I know tampering with the mbr can cause some serious problems but as long as u have your windows back up cd you can enter rescue mode and type fixmbr / fixboot and i personally havnt had any problems with these commands....
Running "fdisk /mbr" will only overwrite the MBR, thus removing the Linux entry from your dual boot menu. However, the Linux installation will still be on your hard drive. Assuming that you want to remove Linux and recover the disk space, you will also need to drop the partitions that Linux was using, then reformat them as NTFS partitions (so that XP will be able to see them). "fdisk /mbr" does not restore any previous versions of the MBR, instead it just overwrites it to a Windows-friendly state.
As always, make backups of your important data first, just to be safe. Good luck with it and welcome to LQ -- J.W.
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