Re: Removing debian from hdd
On 06/01/12 06:00, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012 schrieb Guido Martínez:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi Guido,
>
>> I recently borrowed a hard drive and installed debian on it, alongside
>> windows. I used it for a couple of weeks.
>>
>> Later, I tried to remove debian by deleting the partitions I had
>> installed it on, but that caused grub to fail horribly, and I had to
>> reinstall debian. How can I remove debian? Can I make grub ignore that
>> partition and then delete it?
>
> You need to install a MBR record and set the Windows partition as
> bootable.
>
> The package mbr should have such an MBR. It seems to have a command named
> "install-mbr".
>
> Should be pretty straight forward, but I never had to do it.
>
> Otherwise you´d need some kind of Windows rescue CD/DVD and restore the
> Windows boot loader from there.
>
> Ciao,
The Debian Live based Rescatux will do that for you:-
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/
A Windoof/MSDOS floppy will also do the same thing:-
fdisk /mbr c:
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