Camaleón wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> Guido Martínez wrote: > >> > 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? > >> > >> I don't understand what's your final goal, let's see... > > > > Guido says his goal is to remove Debian from the computer and enable it > > to boot without it. > > That's what I thought but I prefer to have a confirmation for this point. Guido's words are quite clear. > >> You have a hard disk with windows and debian installed on different > >> partitions. Fine. > >> > >> GRUB is the default bootloader which allows you to boot into Debian or > >> windows. Fine. > >> > >> You have deleted/formatted your Debian partitions. Fine. Then you > >> reinstalled it (? - this was not needed at all). > > > > Incorrect. It was needed. > > (...) > > Not at all. You can do many things to get GRUB removed (fixmbr) or > windows booted (using SDG) without needing to install Debian again. Incorrect. For one at least some MS machines, and I daresay many of them, do not include the necessary tools to repair themselves. In which case it is not possible to find a working fixmbr program by booting the windows system even if you use a 3rd party boot media such as SuperGrubDisk or Debian to boot it. Secondly the problem was that the windows system would not boot without some 3rd party boot media. If you can't use the system then you can't use the system to find out that even if you can boot it that the tools needed (fixmbr, bootrec, others) are not included there. Using Debian was just one of many possible 3rd party boot media options. But it was an available one. Of course there are other options to reinstalling Debian. But if you have no other boot media in your hand but do have a Debian install disk in your hand then installing Debian again seems a very obvious course of action. It often works out well as a rescue disk. You might wish you had another more appropriate to the task boot media available but if you don't then it doesn't matter. You end up using what you have available. It is just another 3rd party boot disk at that point. Were there other options available? Of course there were. The universe is filled with a very large number of possibilities. I think what Guido did was perfectly reasonable given the circumstances. Bob P.S. I think you meant to say SuperGrubDisk there instead of SDG. Or perhaps I mean to say that I have no idea what SDG might be otherwise.
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