undoing dual-boot

Joe Szilagyi lists at szilagyi.us
Wed Feb 18 20:32:34 UTC 2004


Any way around that if I don't have the disk? This was one of those 
pre-installed on the server XP deals.




-=Brian Truter=- said the following on 2/18/2004 3:27 PM:

> I dont think fdisk /mbr will work on an NTFS partition. You would have to
> use the recovery console on The WinXP installation CD to repair the MBR
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Szilagyi" <lists at szilagyi.us>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:52 PM
> Subject: undoing dual-boot
> 
> 
> 
>>I have an XP system with a 150 gig HD set to dual-boot. I used Partition
>>Magic to allocate 100 megs to Linux and put FC1 onto that section, but
>>want to undo this now to make a seperate all-FC1 machine.
>>
>>What is the safest method for the Windows data to remove FC1? Boot into
>>Windows and give it back via Partition Magic? Or is it better to boot into
>>the FC1 install disks and wipe out the partitions there first...? Any
>>advice from people that have done this would be appreciated. I basically
>>want to just undo the dual-boot on this particular system.
>>
> 
> 
> Assuming you consider Partition Magic safe (I've had it screw up in rather
> exciting ways before), I'd just delete the linux partition, and resize the
> Windows partition to take up the slack. After that you'll want to go to a
> command line (in Windows) and type "fdisk /mbr", which will write a fresh
> master boot record and wipe out the boot loader.
>   Of course back up anything important before doing this, but you should
> make it through OK. Alternatively you could just leave the small partition
> just in case. It never hurts to have a spare blank partition.
> 
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Regards,
Joe





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