On 10/18/07, Michael Comperchio
Due to a rather unfortunate state of affairs (my laptop windows development system died) I have to reclaim my tower from SUSE.
Too bad.
System has two drives : first (master) has the windows installaition and (obviously, I assume) the boot loader.
the second (slave) has all the SUSE stuff.
Now, I'm sure that to most of the readers of this list this is a simple exercise, but I've done a bunch of googling and haven't discovers a comprehensible answer to this question!
If your windows system is intact, and you can boot it using grub, and you want to remove grub so it does not show up, then: 1. make sure you have your windows install CD (just in case, if everything is OK, you will not need it) 1. if this is the first suse install on that machine, it have saved the old MBR in /boot. Check the date/time stamp of /boot/backup_mbr. If it was created when you first installed suse on that box, than you can do: # dd if=/boot/backup_mbr of=/dev/hda (or whatever is your first hdd) This should be all, reboot in windows :( if the backup file looks newer, then most probably some sequental suse install has grabbed the previous grub MBR, so you can boot with any MSDOS disk, and issue: a:> fdisk C: /fixmbr reboot and ... if this fails, boot the win install cd, and start the recovery console. there you can run fix boot and fixmbr commands for C: reboot Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org