On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Frank's Mail wrote: > Many months ago I installed fedora on my PC with dial boot capability. I may have made an error in not having a separate system for Fedora linux in that default boot is fedora and not Windows. I find I use windows more than Fedora and find I can't leave my system when I reboot (updates, installations, etc) or it will default to Fedora on reboot if I am not there to select "DOS". > > Three questions: > > 1. How can I change the boot default to DOS? edit /boot/grub/grub.conf - and change the value of 'default' entry. > > 2. Can I remove the space (on my windows PC) used for Fedora and convert it back to Windows XP without reformatting the whole drive? In essence, can I recover the 15 Gb I now have devoted to Fedora and convert it back to Windows? > Yes, from XP - run the 'Administrative Tools' -> 'Computer Management' - and look for 'Disk Management' It should list all the partitions on the HDD. You can delete/reformat partitions from here. Make sure you don't destroy the wrong ones (:)) > 3. If 2 is feasible, how do I remove the dual boot selection? > > Thanks in advance. Apointer to a solution would be appreciated. I guess you can boot from an old windows 98 floppy and run 'fdisk /mbr' - or boot from winxp cd - and go into the recovery console - and use 'fixmbr' command. *DISCLAIMER* : data can be lost if playing with disk partitions.. Satish
