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  1. Apr 25th, 2004, 07:12 PM #1
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    grub error

    I have two hard drives, one runs red hat linux 9.0 (slave drive), the other runs windows xp (master) and when i remove my linux hd and boot up i get a grub error, i assume grub is the boot loader for linux or something but im curious why linux is trying to boot when my xp drive is the master and how can i fix this so i can take out the linux hd
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  2. Apr 25th, 2004, 11:46 PM #2
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    Remove the linux bootloader.
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    It depends on which hard disk you have the master boot record (where the bootloader is installed). If this is on the XP drive (which it appears that it might be) you need to modify your grub configuration before removing the driver by removing the entry for Linux.

    If you want to remove the Linux disk permanantley then your best option would be to remove grub altogether and use the Windows XP boot loader - boot.ini. You can restore the XP boot loader by going into recovery mode and typing fixmbr. This will overwirte the MBR and effectivley remove grub.
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  4. Apr 26th, 2004, 10:24 AM #4
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    O yeah i got it fixed finally, i just used a win 98 boot disk and typed fdisk /mbr. Thanks for the help tho.
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