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well I can't get the mySQL to install right so I am just going to get this off my laptop to get the space back for the HD. so I have it running windows xp and mandrake, using grub for the boot. what do I need to do it get the windows boot back, then I can just use partitionMagic to do the rest.
I think that the mandrake 10 install cd can restore the windows boot manager. I haven't done it before, but I think there is an option in the rescue mode of the install cd.
boot your windows-XP CD
F-8 choose command prompt
fdisk /mbr
remove CD boot back into windows. Do what you need in Part-Mag.
insert Mandrake CD reboot into Rescue Mode.
Grub-install /dev/hda hda=whatever your primary boot particion is.
Grub should pick-up both OS.
ok I guess I have not been too clear. I am going to be taking off linux to just be running a windows laptop. I am doing my linux work from a virtualPC in windows. so I want to go back to just windows boot as it would if that was the only thing I had ever had installed.
Boot with Mdk install cd 1 into rescue mode, choose 'restore windows bootloader' to get rid of grub.
Now boot into XP and delete the Linux partitions you'd find from adminstrative tools, within control panel
I know that justintime32 said the samething but given I have had so many problems with my laptop and I need it for every class at college I did not want to go with an "I think".
Again thanks to both of you (justintime32 and RockmanExe) for helping me.
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