[Sussex] MBR problems

[Richie Jarvis]

Angelo Servini wrote:
> 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?
1. Boot a linux recuse disk on your machine, chroot into your / 
partition, and then reinitialise grub (I believe the command is 
grub-install)

2. Boot a Windoze rescue disk in the machine, and type fdisk /mbr at the 
prompt, that should install a Windoze MBR for you, and remove grub.

Cheers,

Richie