Linux and how to get rid of it!

[kwacker]

Put SUSE linux on my laptop, but I'm not too happy with it. so I wanted to go back to XP but cant seem to get rid of some of the linux bits (GRUB or something)

How do I get rid of all of the linux crap?

Daniel

[Church of Noise]

Don't take my word on this, but I seem to recall it can be done like this:
- start -> execute
- type cmd OR command if cmd doesn't work
- then type, in the command windows: fdisk /mbr (this cleans up the Master Boot Record and should get rid of GRUB)

But you might want to wait until somebody confirms this...

[annodomini2]

Church of Noise said:

Don't take my word on this, but I seem to recall it can be done like this: - start -> execute - type cmd OR command if cmd doesn't work - then type, in the command windows: fdisk /mbr (this cleans up the Master Boot Record and should get rid of GRUB) But you might want to wait until somebody confirms this...

That will erase GRUB if you're running dos/98 etc, BUT... running xp you need to use the setup disk see the following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=31

And use FIXMBR command in Recovery Console

Related article:

http://answers.google.com/answers/thr

[warmfuzzies]

I did this, fix/mbr, and it killed my PC. I reinstalled XP, and it decided to make two copies of itself. So I have myself now running XP which boots fine, but everything else is duplicated which is a tad strange.

Kevin.

[kwacker]

The fdisk /mbr worked but now I'm having a problem with the product key for xp.

thanks for the help.