On 06/01/12 06:00, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012 schrieb Guido Martínez: >> Hi, > > Hi Guido, > >> I recently borrowed a hard drive and installed debian on it, alongside >> windows. I used it for a couple of weeks. >> >> Later, I tried to remove debian by deleting the partitions I had >> installed it on, but that caused grub to fail horribly, and I had to >> reinstall debian. How can I remove debian? Can I make grub ignore that >> partition and then delete it? > > You need to install a MBR record and set the Windows partition as > bootable. > > The package mbr should have such an MBR. It seems to have a command named > "install-mbr". > > Should be pretty straight forward, but I never had to do it. > > Otherwise you´d need some kind of Windows rescue CD/DVD and restore the > Windows boot loader from there. > > Ciao,
The Debian Live based Rescatux will do that for you:- http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/ A Windoof/MSDOS floppy will also do the same thing:- fdisk /mbr c: Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f0651d2.7010...@gmail.com