uninstall radhat....pleaase help.

1980blue · 02-05-2003, 04:14 PM

hello....i need help.
i currently have a dual boot machine , the os that i have is windows xp and redhat 8.0, the boot loader is GRUB.
my problem is that i need to uninstall the Radhat/linux partition w/o loosing my windows xp.
and nobady i know can help me with that issue....pleesae help.

born4linux · 02-05-2003, 09:10 PM

use a dos or win98 startup disk to start up yourr machine. then run this:

fdisk /mbr

this will get rid of GRUB and the Windows NTLoader will then takeover. To get rid of the linux partitions, u can do that in XP (win2k has a computer management option where u can view the partitions in your drive).

atko · 02-06-2003, 03:38 PM

W2K CD also can 'repair' a W2K install including reinstalling the MBR - Master Boot Record. I have done this before, removed all the linus partitions and resized the W2K partition to use the complete hard drive using Partition Magic. It is a pretty simple and straight forward process. As XP follows W2K I expect the cd will also have a repair option. This is the most straight forward way of doing it.