On Sunday 22 August 2004 18:25, iejls olwk wrote:
One more question about my last problem -- (I couldn't reinstall Windows after an install of SUSE Linux).
I finally got into BIOS and booted from my Toshiba recovery discs, which deletes all partitions (there were none) and reformatted the drive. But after the clean Windows installation, it rebooted and showed a black screen with nothing but the words "GRUB" -- which sounds like something from Linux. Do you know how to get rid of that and get back to a normal system with nothing left from Linux? I have tried re-installing Windows twice, but I still get the blank screen with "GRUB".
If your recovery disk are true windows disk, then you should be able to boot to the command line. If you can get to the command line from the CD, then type fdisk /mbr. That will restore the master boot record to it's windows style format. If you can't, you can do the same thing with a dos boot disk that has fdisk on it, or borrow one from a friend. FWIW, you had partitions on the drive. Just none that windows wants to recognize.
I want to put the linux on a desktop, but I need Windows back on my laptop ASAP and I can't seem to get the SUSE Linux out of the system.
I hope that you need it for work. SuSE is out of the way. If you formatted the drive, then it's gone. But your restore disk didn't correct the change in the MBR. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.1 Kernel 2.6.4 KDE 3.2.1 Kmail 1.6.2 For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 6:51pm up 1:53, 3 users, load average: 1.15, 1.09, 1.09