Satish,
Thanks for the tips. Fortunatly, I still had an old 98 boot disk. It worked and now I have the XP capacity back. Appreciate the help....
/Frank
----- Original Message ----- From: "Satish Balay" <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Changing default boot selection
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
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