Dual Booting - grubs up?
Posted in Home, the web, Office, Linux on May 28, 2008 at 11:23 am
So, obvious choice is to repartition & get rid of the Linux. I have a copy of partition magic so I can probably do it without data loss, I’ll have a go.
The very lovely portion magic has moved portions OK (I think) & my primary partition is bootable BUT it boots into the grub loader which used to ask if you wanted to run Linux or “Other” (XP). Now it can’t find the Linux and just quits quietly.
Any clever suggestions? Will just booting off an XP CD & selecting recovery fix it?
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Loading ...Comment by Bigirv - May 30, 2008 on 8:36 pm
Yes, boot from XP CD, go to recover console by pressing ‘R’ then select the partition ( I assume now 1) and in the command line type “fixmbr” (without the quotes) when asked if you are sure select Y for yes. Then type exit and enter. your machine should boot XP without the option of linux.
Comment by Jacques de Beer - May 31, 2008 on 2:00 am
Sad…. However, you can download supergrub (forget the link at the moment, but Google it) and create a bootCD from the ISO. This you can use to change the MBR back to be “windows only” and get rid of GRUB…
Comment by Dave F - May 31, 2008 on 1:58 pm
cheers guys, assuming I can find a bootable XP disk I’ll try that if not it’s super grub!
Comment by Dave F - May 31, 2008 on 4:52 pm
Sorted! I tried Bootfix as well for luck as it ha less warnings about it than fixmbr. Thanks very much 
Comment by Bigirv - May 31, 2008 on 6:17 pm
Glad to be of help. Cheers!
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