DJVageli Posted June 10, 2006 CID Share Posted June 10, 2006 Hey guys,heres the situation,on my first hard drive I have Win XP Pro installed and on my secong HDD I have Ubuntu Linux,now I havent used it in a very long time and I want to uninstall it,can I go to its disk druid and delete those partitions and then use fix mbr with windows to fix my GRUB menu? And if I do use fix mbr,will it wipe out my data on my XP or just fix the Grub menu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted June 10, 2006 CID Share Posted June 10, 2006 boot from xp cd to recovery console. run FIXMBR and then FIXBOOT (fixmbr restores the boot record, fixboot writes the boot sector to point to windows.) then you can use whatever tool you want to repartition the second drive. DO NOT JUST REPARTITION! THE BOOT RECORD POINTS TO THE LINUX PARTITION. YOU MUST RESTORE IT FIRST FROM THE RECOVERY CONSOLE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJVageli Posted June 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 10, 2006 boot from xp cd to recovery console. run FIXMBR and then FIXBOOT (fixmbr restores the boot record, fixboot writes the boot sector to point to windows.) then you can use whatever tool you want to repartition the second drive. DO NOT JUST REPARTITION! THE BOOT RECORD POINTS TO THE LINUX PARTITION. YOU MUST RESTORE IT FIRST FROM THE RECOVERY CONSOLE! So I should do it in the order you showed me right? And I wont lose any data on my XP I hope lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted June 10, 2006 CID Share Posted June 10, 2006 yeah. first fix it like shown, then repartition. you have even less risk of data loss because you have linux on a 2nd drive, therefor no trouble repartitioning. yesterday i wiped that opensore stuff off a friends drive. only had one hd so i had to resize the ntfs after that to get rid of the linux partition. usually works well, but you never know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJVageli Posted June 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 10, 2006 yeah. first fix it like shown, then repartition. you have even less risk of data loss because you have linux on a 2nd drive, therefor no trouble repartitioning. yesterday i wiped that opensore stuff off a friends drive. only had one hd so i had to resize the ntfs after that to get rid of the linux partition. usually works well, but you never know... LOL...yea..and the never know is what usually keeps people away from doing it BTW..thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted June 12, 2006 CID Share Posted June 12, 2006 i U HAVE NOTHING U WANT TO SAVEIN THAT HARD DRIVE GET A BOOT DISK AND DISCONNECT YOUR MAIN hD PUT THE LINUX ONE AS MASTER AND FORMAT IT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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