fixmbr

I want to remove linux from my computer so I want to use the fixmbr command to get rid of GRUB.  The problem is my pc didn't come with a boot disk or anything remotely useful.  Instead it came with a 1GB primary partition that holds a backup of xp.

When I enter xp from GRUB, it always shows a screen that asks if I want to enter Windows or Window's recovery console, but the recovery console doesn't seem to work; it just flashes an underscore in the top-right part of the screen.

So my question is: How do I get my normal boot loader without the recovery console?

Download the .iso for your OS, I'm assuming it's XP.  Use that to boot up, fix your MBR, and reinstall windows.  I don't know what your situation is exactly but maybe you can still use "Smart Boot Manager" to solve your problem.  If you google for "Smart Boot Manager" you should find an iso.

I have a HP pc running Media Center Edition 2005, and I've been dual-booting suse 10.1 mainly to mess around with xgl.  I got bored of xgl so today I decided I want to just get rid of linux and free up space for my windows partition.

Where would I download the .iso (legally)?  I'd rather have the normal windows boot loader than SBM.

Oh, and why would I have to reinstall windows?  Windows works fine, I just don't want to deal with GRUB problems when I remove linux.

>>3
get a win 98 boot floppy with DOS, and a gparted live CD.
Resize winXP partition to be whole disk with gparted.
boot into win98 disk,

fdisk /mbr

win.

>>1
That hidden partition is BULLSHIT. Why THE FUCK will they not give you the fucking CD for the OS you pay for; why THE FUCK do they waste space with SHIT; why THE FUCK do they have to make everything more difficult; why THE FUCK did they even bother, the morons.

>>4

...boot...floppy?

I haven't had a floppy disk drive since 3 computers ago (yes I just measured time by the amount of PC's I've owned)

I have Partition Magic so resizing the XP partition won't be a problem, the boot loader will though.  I think I'll just edit the lines in GRUB so it only shows the same XP partition over and over until I find a way to get rid of it completely.

>>3
Why do you need to remove GRUB? Just set GRUB to automatically boot to the windows partition, then leave it. It's not hurting anything, so why do you want to fuck with your mbr?

>>7

How does one go about setting GRUB to automatically boot to windows?

edit /boot/grub/menu.lst as root
in that file, find default key and set it to the appropriate number. In my menu.lst, the windows partition is the 3rd entry in menu.lst so I would put ''default 2'' if I wanted to boot windows automatically

#change default to 0 if you want this to boot automatically
title        Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-23-386 (recovery mode)
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-23-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-23-386
boot

#change default to 1 if you want this to boot automatically
title        Ubuntu, memtest86+
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
boot

#change default to 2 if you want this to boot automatically
title        Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root        (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map        (hd0) (hd1)
map        (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader    +1

>>9

Thanks, but if I deleted the linux partition that has that file in it wouldn't GRUB get an error?

I found an old windows disk in my closet and finally was able to use fixmbr.  So problems solved :)

>>10 then your comp should've said system error insert boot disk.

I believe /boot was a different partition... You'd be able to edit the file with Knoppix.

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