How does one go about removing Grub from a redhat8/winxpdual boot?

[Douglas]

I've been playing with Redhat8 on my laptop thathas winXP pro (with NTFS) and RedHat 8.0 using Grub as a boot loader. I now wish to remove redhat from my laptop to try other distros an such like.

How do i get rid of it from the MBR. In the old days fdisk /mbr would have done but this is XP.... PQMagic maybe? or can i do it from linux then when i reboot it will go straight to xp?

 

[Ben]

if you start XP in console mode (/recovery mode on the CD), then there is a fixmbr program if I recall correctly

 

[Douglas]

Compaq helpfully gave me a XP pro recovery.. SO after some wnadering round uni halls I've found a real XP pro cd and booted from it and got the the recovery/repair bit at which point it asks me for the administrator password. Now my pasword was blank so I tried just hitting enter and it says incorrect! So booting into xp i set the password to foobar and booted from the cd. The console still says the password is wrong....

Interesting

 

[Ben]

OK, the administrator's password cannot be blank.

Here's the workaround, Right Click on my computer (probably in the start menu), and do Manage - System Tools - Local Users And Groups - Users - RIght click on Administrator, and do Set Password.

Use that password to log in to the recovery console.

 

[Douglas]

Tried that.
Set the password to "none" without the "" and rebooted still the recovery console is saying:

The password is not valid. Please retype the password.

I am well confused

 

[Shak]

Why do you want to remove GRUB?

I think there is a mbr program somewhere that deletes is...not sure.Linux based thing...

Shak

 

[Douglas]

Found a soloution. The compaq recovery cd had a copy of fdisk on it that recognised ntfs so i did an fdisk /mbr and it worked.

Shak i wanted to remove it so i could just have mny laptop as XP only for a while. Doing some uni course work in visuo... My dekstop runs redhat full time o i only feel half evil