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Old 05-28-2005, 09:17 PM   #1
nancy25dec
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Exclamation How to get rid of GRUB ?


Hi,

If anyone can please help me? I have just uninstalled ubuntu the way i did it was formated the drive in which ubuntu was installed but now when i boot up my pc it says GRUB installer problem ERROR 22.
Before this I was dual booting Ubuntu with Win XP, because I share my computer my house mates don't want linux in computer.

In my windows I manage to get same partitions again as it was before.

But now, I just want to get rid of GRUB boot loader and want my comp. to start in windows automatically.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 
Old 05-28-2005, 09:27 PM   #2
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12. How to uninstall GRUB from my hard disk drive?

There is no concept uninstall in boot loaders, because if you uninstall a boot loader, an unbootable machine would simply remain. So all you need to do is overwrite another boot loader you like to your disk, that is, install the boot loader without uninstalling GRUB.

For example, if you want to install the boot loader for Windows, just run FDISK /MBR on Windows. If you want to install LILO (I can't imagine why you want to do such a thing, though), run /sbin/lilo on GNU/Linux.

--cheers
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Old 05-29-2005, 05:21 PM   #3
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