[Wolves] grub2 remove an embedded config

[Kris Douglas]

On 13 January 2012 08:48, Peter Cannon <dick_turpin at archlinux.us> wrote:
> On 12/01/12 21:04, Adam Sweet wrote:
>>
>> On 11/01/12 12:55, Re-LoaD wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> anyone know how to remove an embedded grub config file from the mbr.
>>
>>
>> Bit confused about what you mean Re-LoaD. I haven't really spent any time
>> messing with grub2 yet so I don't know if it does anything special that I
>> don't know about, but I think you mean how do you remove grub from the mbr,
>> presumably to reinstate booting into a Windows installation without grub
>> being involved.
>>
>> In the old Win 9x days you used a DOS boot floppy and did something like:
>>
>> format /mbr
>>
>> In the WinXP days you booted to the install CD recovery console did
>> either:
>>
>> fixboot
>>
>> or
>>
>> fixmbr
>>
>> I forget which.
>>
>> I've not really used Windows since XP, so I'm not sure what you do for
>> Vista/7.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adam Sweet
>>
>
> fdisk /mbr

Your best bet is to use the Microsoft bootrec executable.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

It is on all windows 7 CDs which support Installation Recovery.
-- 
Regards, Kris Douglas.
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