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Removing GRUB boot loader of Linux OS

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by anurasn

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I was installed Linux and remove it because I want to installed Windows 2000 and then again installed Linux as dual booting system.

But after formatting and removing partition from third party system utility "delpart" it was removed and get all space of hard drive (20GB).

But when I trying to installed Windows the setup program promt message like "There is an another OS and the secondry OS will installed ...". As well as the attempt to trying installing the setup programm give message like "Veryfing DMI pool .... GRUB " and not went beyond that after several 10 minutes.

Then I found that it was a bootloader written by Linux and have to delete it for completly clean the hard drive.

My question is how I delete boot loader written by Linux? Is there any third party utility program to delete MBR?

Thank you.

A.S.Nawarathna.

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by stalinvlad9

No not some kind of flame!
I had this with that LiLo thing that some Linux distros come with
But I found if I put freeBSD in "dangerous dedicated mode" (i.e. use all the disk no partions) then it wipes it out, then if you want to change it back to Windows Whatever a quick Fdisk/mbr removes everything

I think you will find that Linux/*BSD and windows NT/2000 will ask if you want to remove the old boot manager, or keep your current one.

by reles

This is a trick i was tought in a Linux Admin Seminar boot on DOS mode with a floppy (Yes a Floppy, you always have to have a booting floppy for linux and for Windows/DOS) and Type at the prompt :

fdisk /mbr

that will clean your Master Boot Record (place where lilo and grub and some other booting programas reside)

Hope it helps

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