How do I restore the MBR?

Beast Of Blight

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• Dec 27, 2002

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I installed RH7.3 awhile back, and the extra space it takes up has really affected this system, so I want to remove it for now.. so how do I restore the MBR?

for that matter how do I remove linux? Just delete the partition its on or what?


any help appriciated.

 

ronin1967

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• Dec 27, 2002

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the only way I know how is to use FDISK /mbr

however you will lose everything one the drive...

 

moorcito

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• Dec 27, 2002

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Yeah, you just delete the partition to get rid of linux.

 

Titan386

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• Dec 27, 2002

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You can just delete the partition linux is on to remove it.

As far as restoring the MBR, you can do fdisk /mbr
I don't think that will erase your data, but I've never done it, so I can't be sure.

 

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• Dec 27, 2002

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1. delete the linux partition
2. fdisk /mbr
3. set your windo~1 partition bootable again

if you´re nervous about fdisk killing your other partitions: get a DOS-diskeditor from simtel.net and save the LAST 80 bytes (5 lines) of your partition table (First sector on your harddisk). Have a boot disk with the diskeditor handy, then you can always recreate your partition(s) if needed.

Alex

 

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Beast Of Blight

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I saved the disk image.. or some such while using FIPS to partition the drive.

if I restore the drive image will ot restore the MBR?

 

Audioaficionado

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• Dec 27, 2002

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If you want to still play with Linux in your spare time, try the Knoppix live CD distro. It won't install anything to your hard drive except a small swap file that you can delete later if you want. It's a demo but it will still do all the things Linux can do. It's not bloated like some other distros are because it runs fine on my old box.

 

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• Dec 30, 2002

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I figured it out! Heh.

I made my antivirus do a scan, which noted the edited MBR. I told it that a virus infected the MBR, and it restored it to its original. Now I just have to delete the partion and linux'll be gone.