Best place for Moblin help

[bim88]

Hey.

New to the forums here. Having major problems with Moblin at the moment.

Lost windows and got GRUB so I can't install it back on.

I want to get rid of Moblin and just get windows back.

Anyone know the best place for some help on this.

Im not the best wid some computers so could really do with some help.

Thanks

[oz]

I want to get rid of Moblin and just get windows back.

Anyone know the best place for some help on this.

Hello and welcome to the forums!

A Windows user forum would probably be a better place to ask about installing Windows, but if you just need to clear your hard drive so that you can reinstall Windows, you can run one of the following commands in a Linux terminal as root (or sudo) user:


To clear the MBR (master boot record) only, leaving partition table alone:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1

To clear both, the MBR and partition table, run the following command:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

Be sure to remove the sudo part of the command if you don't use sudo. You should get a short message about records in and records out, then you should be ready to start again with a fresh drive.

[bim88]

thanks for the reply. jus wandering hjow i get to the linux terminal in moblin.

i have GRUB and can input command lines there but the input you gave me above don't work.

thanks. sorry for the noobness!!

[reed9]

It might be easier to boot up a live CD, such as Parted Magic, and use the GUI to reformat your drive to NTFS for your windows install.

You may need to do so even if you succeeded with the above. At least, my experience has been that the Windows XP installer has problems even trying to reformat a partition with a linux filesystem.