Fwd: How to remove GRUB

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM, d~_*b <theunknownandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 April 2012 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I don't know about Vista, but in Windows XP one could boot from the
>> > Windows
>> > CD, select the recovery console, and enter the command FIXMBR.
>>
>> If I still had the CD, I'd try that.
>
>
> Vista is slightly different, if you wipe GRUB you have a good chance of
> encountering the \boot\bcd error when booting the laptop.
>
> Try these steps 1st :  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Also requires a CD.  If I still have it, I don't know where it is. I'm
pretty sure Dell does not supply the M$ CD, and GRUB won't boot the
recovery partition that is on the machine, possibly because of
repartitioning.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD