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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:06 PM
Subject: How to remove GRUB
To: ubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com


I've got a laptop with serious physical damage. *It kinda still works.
*I'm planning to sell it for parts on eBay. *It still has Vista, but I
want to remove all traces of my work in Ubuntu. *If I just wipe the
Ubuntu partition, GRUB stops working, because the GRUB menu gets
wiped.

Thus, I want to remove GRUB, or at least, re-enable MS booting.

Any clues?

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On 04/26/2012 09:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:


I've got a laptop with serious physical damage. It kinda still works.
I'm planning to sell it for parts on eBay. It still has Vista, but I
want to remove all traces of my work in Ubuntu. If I just wipe the
Ubuntu partition, GRUB stops working, because the GRUB menu gets
wiped.

Thus, I want to remove GRUB, or at least, re-enable MS booting.


I don't know about Vista, but in Windows XP one could boot from the
Windows CD, select the recovery console, and enter the command FIXMBR.


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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Steve Grace <sgrace@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 04/26/2012 09:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> I've got a laptop with serious physical damage. *It kinda still works.
>> *I'm planning to sell it for parts on eBay. *It still has Vista, but I
>> want to remove all traces of my work in Ubuntu. *If I just wipe the
>> Ubuntu partition, GRUB stops working, because the GRUB menu gets
>> wiped.
>>
>> Thus, I want to remove GRUB, or at least, re-enable MS booting.
>
>
> I don't know about Vista, but in Windows XP one could boot from the Windows
> CD, select the recovery console, and enter the command FIXMBR.

If I still had the CD, I'd try that.

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On 27 April 2012 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:


>

> I don't know about Vista, but in Windows XP one could boot from the Windows

> CD, select the recovery console, and enter the command FIXMBR.



If I still had the CD, I'd try that.
Vista is slightly different, if you wipe GRUB you have a good chance of encountering the ootcd error when booting the laptop.


Try these steps 1st :**http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392*


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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM, d~_*b <theunknownandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 April 2012 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I don't know about Vista, but in Windows XP one could boot from the
>> > Windows
>> > CD, select the recovery console, and enter the command FIXMBR.
>>
>> If I still had the CD, I'd try that.
>
>
> Vista is slightly different, if you wipe GRUB you have a good chance of
> encountering the ootcd error when booting the laptop.
>
> Try these steps 1st :**http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Also requires a CD. If I still have it, I don't know where it is. I'm
pretty sure Dell does not supply the M$ CD, and GRUB won't boot the
recovery partition that is on the machine, possibly because of
repartitioning.

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Download one from a torrent.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM, d~_*b <theunknownandrew@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27 April 2012 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > I don't know about Vista, but in Windows XP one could boot from the
>>> > Windows
>>> > CD, select the recovery console, and enter the command FIXMBR.
>>>
>>> If I still had the CD, I'd try that.
>>
>>
>> Vista is slightly different, if you wipe GRUB you have a good chance of
>> encountering the ootcd error when booting the laptop.
>>
>> Try these steps 1st :**http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392
>
> Also requires a CD. *If I still have it, I don't know where it is. I'm
> pretty sure Dell does not supply the M$ CD, and GRUB won't boot the
> recovery partition that is on the machine, possibly because of
> repartitioning.
>
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Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Also requires a CD. If I still have it, I don't know where it is.
> I'm pretty sure Dell does not supply the M$ CD, and GRUB won't boot
> the recovery partition that is on the machine, possibly because of
> repartitioning.

Have a look at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringWindows>
section "Reinstating Windows" at the end.


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On 04/27/2012 10:13 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:


Also requires a CD. If I still have it, I don't know where it is. I'm
pretty sure Dell does not supply the M$ CD, and GRUB won't boot the
recovery partition that is on the machine, possibly because of
repartitioning.



This usually works with most modern recovery partitions. You'll need a
linux boot cd.


With a partition editor of your choice, mark your recovery partition as
the boot partition.


Install and old style dos mbr. There is probably a mbr only utility now
that will do this, but I've always used Lilo (which is on my rescue CD)


lilo -M /dev/sda

*note* this will break grub. If the rescue partition does not work, or
was not made to be bootable, this will render the system unbootable.


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SOLVED (see below)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu@tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> On 04/27/2012 10:13 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>>
>> Also requires a CD. *If I still have it, I don't know where it is. I'm
>> pretty sure Dell does not supply the M$ CD, and GRUB won't boot the
>> recovery partition that is on the machine, possibly because of
>> repartitioning.
>>
>
> This usually works with most modern recovery partitions. *You'll need a
> linux boot cd.
>
> With a partition editor of your choice, mark your recovery partition as the
> boot partition.
>
> Install and old style dos mbr. *There is probably a mbr only utility now
> that will do this, but I've always used Lilo (which is on my rescue CD)
>
> lilo -M /dev/sda
>
> *note* this will break grub. *If the rescue partition does not work, or was
> not made to be bootable, this will render the system unbootable.

I found a MS Vista repair disk iso online. The earlier instructions
for the os installation disk also worked on this disk. My system now
boots without GRUB. I'll use a live disk to remove all traces of
Ubuntu.

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