[SOLVED] Uninstalling Grub With Windows 9X

[dale456654]

Hi,
I have recently uninstalled Ubuntu from my laptop because I could not get the network card to work...

Ubuntu left the GRUB bootloader in there and now I cannot start Windows.

It says Grub Error 22

I have tried inserting the Windows CD and typing fixboot and fixmbr but it says command not found.

I try the same with the Windows 2000 CD and it works but then says at bootup NTLDR is missing Press any key to restart.

How can I "restore" the Windows Millennium Startup?

[Jonathan183]

Use Supergrub to fix Windows boot.

[dale456654]

Thanks for your reply, I just tried this it boots and asks me what i want to do, I choose Win+MBR but then it goes to NTLDR is Missing again...

This is Windows 98 I am fixing...

[L4Linux]

Hi,
How can I "restore" the Windows Millennium Startup?

OMG!!! Are you really going to install windows ME (Millenium Error)???
Better install XP and try Ubuntu again with WUBI. Maybe we can help you sort out this network problem.
SuperGrub indeed does a much better job at restoring windows bootloader, than windows CDs do...

[dale456654]

I seriously don't know why some people do not like Windows ME. I will not install Windows XP because its just Blue Screen after Blue Screen.

I also don't like Wubi, I would rather install Ubuntu through a alternative install CD.

I posted on here a while ago about my networking problem but no-one could help me.

I tried GRUB CD but it did not work.

[Jonathan183]

Is the windows partition marked as active ? you can set this also using Supergrub. Post #1 refers to ME and Windows 2000 but post #3 refers to Windows 98

[dale456654]

Yes C:\ is marked as active and is the only drive there now.

It is Windows Millennium that is on the laptop. I tried to restore it using the windows 2000 cd but that didn't work...

[Jonathan183]

Do you have a Linux live CD you can boot from?

If you do ... open a terminal and type

sudo fdisk -l

and post the output here - the -l is a small L not a one

[D-cat]

Right. You'll have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.list file to chainload the correct partition. Therefore, in addition to fdisk - l, please post the contents of menu.list (only uncommented necessary).

[Jonathan183]

Hi D-cat ... I think Ubuntu has been uninstalled - I only wanted the fdisk -l output to give correct dd command to erase bootloader from MBR (with the usual type carefully warning).

Ed:

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

with /dev/sda replaced with hard drive designation. But wanted to check hard drive designation and also confirm boot flag set on correct partition