Re: Fwd: How to remove GRUB

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Steve Grace <sgrace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 04/26/2012 09:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

I've got a laptop with serious physical damage.  It kinda still works.
 I'm planning to sell it for parts on eBay.  It still has Vista, but I
want to remove all traces of my work in Ubuntu.  If I just wipe the
Ubuntu partition, GRUB stops working, because the GRUB menu gets
wiped.

Thus, I want to remove GRUB, or at least, re-enable MS booting.


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.

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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