lorenzo.sandini@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Moving my FC4 install to a bigger machine, and recycling the old computer to
> be a windows xp desktop computer.
>
> Booted from the WinXP CD, formatted the whole drive, and hoped the MBR would
> be overwritten and clean, but it is not.
>
> On reboot, I am offerend to choose between Win XP and "former OS", which
> obviously needs nowhere.
>
> fdisk /mbr doesn't do a thing. How can I get rid of the reference to the
> former OS in the boot menu ? I know I can edit the boot.ini, but is there any
> trace of FC4 on the HDD that needs to be cleared ?
You're using all of the disk for Windows? (You can check in Disk
Manager.)
You can boot properly into Windows XP?
It doesn't sound like this is Grub's MBR: it sounds like it's an entry
in boot.ini.
To be honest, there's nowhere else for Fedora to hide.
Go ahead and (carefully) edit boot.ini.
Hope this helps,
James.
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