Hi,
I wanted to format the complete harddisk.
I deleted everything but the grub boot manager in the MBR is still
there. I couldn't delete it.
I overwrote MBR already with windows recovery cd but it didn't help.
Is there a possibility to overwrite the MBR?
2008/7/24, John Andersen
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Franz Preihs
wrote: Hi, I installed the boot manager grub with Suse 10.0 some years ago and after installing Suse 11.0 with the live cd recently the system could not be started without the cd. I partitioned the hard disk again, even did it with windows xp , and also I installed Windows XP again - nothing helped. I installed Suse 11.0 with the live cd and in Yast I wanted to delete the boot manager which is no option there. I tried to find anything in the partition setup as well. I can´t get the grub manager deleted. I have tried several things which I found on the internet like using fdisk with the dos boot floopy, fdisk mbr, with the recovery disk.. I used several cd´s with different programms to delete the hard disk but nothing helped. Bios doesn´t give the option to delete the boot manager.
How can I delete grub?
Does your machine have anything in the bios about hard drive protection, boot sector locking, etc?
When you grab a dos boot disk (or windows bootable CD) and run bootdisk /mbr what exactly are the error messages?
Are you sure there is only one disk in this machine and you are not whacking the wrong disk?
I will try tomorrow if it helps. thanks Francis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org