Fwd: How to remove GRUB

[Jeffrey Gray]

Download one from a torrent.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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