CLARIFICATION: Re: remove linux, and then install Windows XP

[Chris Linstid]

Oops. :)

	- Chris

On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Zhao Peng wrote:

>
> BTW, Chris, I've NOT yet got Windows installed.
>
> Chris Linstid wrote:
>> I could be wrong, but I think he already got Windows reinstalled,  
>> but he still has grub installed in the MBR and grub is looking for  
>> his /boot partition (which he already blew away)... thus the grub  
>> error.
>>
>>     - Chris
>>
>>
>> On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Neil Schelly wrote:
>>
>>> It seems you're getting a lot of help with the MBR, but that  
>>> isn't what you're
>>> looking for.  You have/had Linux on there and want to install  
>>> Windows over it
>>> instead.
>>>
>>> As far as I know, you just have to boot from the Windows install  
>>> disc and it
>>> will be more than happy to just take over the hard disk  
>>> regardless of whether
>>> or not your MBR or partition tables are clear.
>>>
>>> In your case, you said that instead of booting from the Windows  
>>> installer
>>> disc, you saw a GRUB message instead of the Windows bootup.  That  
>>> would
>>> indicate to me that your BIOS is set to boot from the hard disk  
>>> before the
>>> CD-ROM.
>>>
>>> So clearing your MBR will probably make the BIOS try and boot  
>>> from the hard
>>> disk, fail, and then boot from the CD-ROM.  But you may find it a  
>>> whole lot
>>> easier to tell your BIOS to look to the CD-ROM first.
>>> -N
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