RE: WinXP & RedHat co-existence nightmare.

["Donald Tyler" <dtyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I tried a Win98 boot disk and it doesn’t even recognize that disk C: exists at all…

 

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Staudenmayer
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:51 AM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: RE: WinXP & RedHat co-existence nightmare.

 

get a DOS boot disk with format.exe on it. I use a WIN98 cd. Then boot to a DOS prompt and run 'fdisk /mbr c:'

that will format the master boot record then re-install winxp

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Tyler [mailto:dtyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:48 AM
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: WinXP & RedHat co-existence nightmare.

Hi,

 

I tried to install RedHat on a separate hard drive on my machine, and use the Grub loader to choose between Windows and Linux, but it completely screwed up WinXP and it wouldn't boot no matter what I did.

 

I had to reinstall windows, but the only disk I had was a restore CD (Not the original OS CD). I did that and it seemed to fix the problem, but now WinXP is taking literally hours to install anything.

 

I have decided to temprorily remove RedHat from the computer. But I can seem to get rid of the Grub loader. I have removed the second hard drive that Linux is on, and I have re-partitioned and formatted the primary hard drive that the Grub loader and windows XP is on. But when I load the machine I get a Grub loader error. I have no earthly idea how the hell it can still be on the hard drive when I re-partitioned and formatted it.

 

Can anyone tell me how to remove the Grub loader from the hard drive so that I can have a completely clean WinXP machine?

 

Thanks.

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