Hello, If I delete and recreate all the partitions on the disk will it remove the GRUB info. There's not too much data on it right now. I think that's what you're recommending. I think you have to delete all the partitions to completely remove the old MBR and start a new one.
Thanks for the response. patrick013 On Jul 31, 8:49 pm, hard wyrd <[email protected]> wrote: > It rewrites the mbr, in essence removing grub. You'll need a DOS bootdisk > though with Fdisk on it. > > If you dont have data on that hard drive yet, you can actually use the > Ubuntu live cd, run gparted and delete and recreate the partition, or > reformat the partition as fat32 or ntfs. > > Here's a Novell (sorry anti-Novell peeps) writeup about > it.http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/1742.html > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > What exactly does fdisk /mbr do ? Erase the MBR or > > replace it ? What should I expect it to do ? > > > Thanks for the response. > > > patrick013 > > > On Jul 29, 8:37 pm, hard wyrd <[email protected]> wrote: > > > fdisk /mbr > > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > How do you remove the Grub or Lilo bootloader from an external hard > > > > drive ? > > > > > I have deleted the LINUX directory and reformatted several partitions, > > > > but my > > > > WindowsPE program will not boot after reformatting this partition too > > > > and reinstalling > > > > it. > > > > > WindowsPE refused to boot after Grub got on here. Do I need to > > > > repartition > > > > everything, reformat everything, or something else ? A Lili LiveCD > > > > distro > > > > however, does boot up if that partition is active and the WindowsPE > > > > partition > > > > refuses to when booted active. > > > > > Beginners mistake on my part no doubt. > > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > > Patrick013 > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > > > Group. > > > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected] > > > > For more options, visit our group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > -- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > "Penguin, penguin, and more penguin !" > > > >www.madforubuntu.com > > > baudizm.blogsome.com- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > "Penguin, penguin, and more penguin !" > > www.madforubuntu.com > baudizm.blogsome.com- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
