[plug] grub.?

[James Elliott - WA Rural Computers]

Thanks Arie, and all who replied

James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arie Hol" <arie99 at ozemail.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] grub.?


>
>
> On 29 Dec 2007 at 12:00, Richard Meyer wrote:
>
>> I think you're out of date here, and the XP way is a prog called
>> "fixmbr" IIRC.
>>
>> Another way might be to connect the new drive to a different controller
> or
>> bung it into a USB cage if you have one ...
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 10:16 +0900, Daniel J. Axtens wrote:
>> > > Can anyone tell me how to get rid of GRUB, at least for the time
>> > > being.
>> > Replacing GRUB is a somewhat risky process, but should you really
> want
>> > to remove GRUB, one option available to you is: Under Windows, type,
> at
>> > command line, "fdisk /mbr".
>> >
>
> For more up to date info on this one goto:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927820/en-us
>
>
> Read under heading "WORKAROUND"
>
> The command is "fixboot" - but must be run from "rescue mode" after
> booting from the Windows XP install disk
>
> HTH
>
> Regards Arie
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