[Sussex] MBR problems

[Angelo Servini]

Hi fellas

1.  I bought myself an 80gb HDD the other day.
2.  My friends PC's HDD died.

I decided to take out my original 30gb HDD and donate it to my friend.

Two problems arise:

1.   My GRUB loader is on the 30gb HDD and now I cannot boot into my Linux partition (Ubuntu).

2.   I cannot install WinNT on my friends PC on my/her's 30gb HDD as even though I deleted all partitions GRUB is still hanging around.   The m$ install goes through phase 1 (copyng stuff to C:) then on reboot, GRUB pops its head up and fails because it is expecting everything else to be on the 80gb HDD.  (My friend is a timid soul - not adventurous at all, and will not accept linux [yet]).

Any ideas on this?  How do I remove the last vestiges of GRUB from the 30gb disk?



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Angelo Servini
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