On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:09:23 -0700, Jon Winn <winn_jon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. I'm very, very new to Linux. Currently I have FC 3 installed on a > 2nd hard drive on my computer, with Windows XP on my primary. When I > installed FC 3, I opted to install the GRUB boot loader. Well, now I want > to remove FC 3 and the boot loader from my system, but simply removing the > 2nd hard drive doesn't work. I haven't been able to find anywhere how to do > that. I'm trying to uninstall everything so I can set up a Linux box server > as a stand alone. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks! JKW > You didn't look hard enough (or maybe too hard) : ) http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html#q12 Actually, the instructions there aren't that great. I think you can boot from a Win98 boot floopy, if you have one, and run the "fdisk /mbr" command mentioned on the above site. I think that should work fine for WinXP. You can also boot your WinXP disk with the recovery console and run "fixmbr" as John Cox suggested. There may be issues with this if you have upgraded to SP2 and still have an SP1 install disk. If this is the case, I suggest going the fdisk /mbr route. There are also other boot loaders around that you might be able to install in Windows if you have trouble with the above suggestions. I think Mohamed Ameur misunderstood what you wanted to do. You want to have one WinXP machine (this one) and one dedicated Linux machine (another box), is that right? If so, you should be able to just move your Linux harddisk over to the new Linux-only box without re-installing (or at least it's theoretically possible, I've heard of cases where that has worked). Jonathan
