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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Removing GRUB from XP-PRO Post 35262 by Cameron on Thursday 3rd of April 2003 11:31:20 PM
Old 04-04-2003
Error Removing GRUB from XP-PRO

Sadly I have to report that my much cared for PC is in a bit of a mess due to my over enthusiastic cousin.

I mentioned at dinner that I was going to uninstall Mandrake 9 and install it with RedHat 8. Douglas (my now infamous cousin) asked to jump on the PC to play a game (no problem). Later he emerged to tell me that he'd removed the whole (all) linux partitions from my system with the aid of PartitionMagic and tried to set up a mirror using the 2nd disk (I just shook my head) - just to help out.

It was XP-Pro with Mandrake 9, now the system boots but with the GRUB loader intact. How can I remove the GRUB loader from the system altogether.

MUCH HELP APPRECIATED.
 

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GRUB-INSTALL(8) 							FSF							   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME
grub-install - install GRUB on your drive SYNOPSIS
grub-install [OPTION] install_device DESCRIPTION
Install GRUB on your drive. -h, --help print this message and exit -v, --version print the version information and exit --root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory --grub-shell=FILE use FILE as the grub shell --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive --force-lba force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS --recheck probe a device map even if it already exists INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename. grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot sector. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. SEE ALSO
grub(8), update-grub(8). The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package. If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub-install should give you access to the complete manual. grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97) January 2013 GRUB-INSTALL(8)
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