Guest azer Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) Hey I have installed 2006 on my pc and laptop,its working very well but I wanted to remove it from my laptop(C drive has 1gb free space only); after removing partitions by using Cd, I dont know how to remove mrb(boot) and recover partitions, help plz.plz give easy solutions...im new to linux! Edited July 10, 2006 by azer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Welcome aboard. :) I guess you want to put WIndows on it again. In that case, boot the Windows-CD and hit R for recovery. You will get now to the rescue terminal and from there, launch fixmbr and reboot. Now, the bootloader is again the Windows bootloader and an installation of Windows will erase Linux on it (just do some partitioning with the install CD). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest azer Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 i have both windows and Linux(thats why i have only 1gb free)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Are you wanting to remove Linux? If so, just boot into Windows. Then go into Disk Management, and remove all the partitions that Windows doesn't recognise. You'll know which ones, as they're easily identifiable. Then after you've done this, put your Windows XP CD in and fix the MBR with this. Alternatively, boot the Mandriva CD one more time, and choose rescue mode by pressing F1, and then typing "linux rescue", and you can recover the Windows MBR this way too I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest azer Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) Yes i want to remove Linux..I dont have any XP CD...partitions are deleted but boot is still in Linux mode! Edited July 10, 2006 by azer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Not having any XP CD means you are not a legit XP user- even the recovery CD's provided by some laptop vendors give you the option to fix your MBR- if you happen to fall in that case. You don't explicitly need the XP CD to "fixboot/fixmbr"- you can do the same with a 9X floppy, burned either to a floppy or CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest azer Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) No, Im using Geniune XP, I have the recovery cd...im going to try it! Edited July 10, 2006 by azer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 In case your recovery CD does not have a fixboot option (like the Dell recovery CD's do) , and you do not have a floppy drive, you can get a windows 9X floppy image from http://www.bootdisk.com/ , and burn that image as a boot image to a CD. From there you can boot that CD and perform fdisk/mbr And your windows will boot properly. The boot diskettes created by windows XP do not "know" the mbr switch... for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest azer Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Thanks Freinds...successfuly finished it(by recovering) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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