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Hi everyone, I multiboot with Suse Linux 9.2 with kernel 2.6.8 & Windows XP on my hard drive. I want to know how can I remove grub boot loader from ...
  1. 02-17-2009 #1
    oc9ine
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    How to remove Grub from MBR of Hard drive...?

    Hi everyone,

    I multiboot with Suse Linux 9.2 with kernel 2.6.8 & Windows XP on my hard drive. I want to know how can I remove grub boot loader from the MBR of my hard drive safely to keep Windows XP running with no problems?


    Waiting n + expectation.

    Oc9ine.
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  2. 02-17-2009 #2
    Lostfarmer
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    Boot to XP's recovery console and run "fixmbr".
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    yancek
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    You could download SuperGrubDisk and fix your xp bootloader.

    You could delete the mbr but first, make a backup. Assuming you have one disk, sda, run the following command as root:

    dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/oc9ine/bkupmbr.img bs=446 count=1

    Replace oc9ine with whatever your user name is. Command above makes backup of mbr.

    To delete mbr run command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1

    You can then use your xp installation CD to run fixmbr command. I believe you need the full xp installation CD not just a restore CD for this to work?
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