I used to have only WinXP installed on my computer, but then I wanted to
have dual-boot and I installed Mandrake 10.0....well to cut the story
short...I didn't like it, and now how do I uninstall Mandrake 10.0.

p.s. I installed Grub on my MBR....

-Thanks-

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On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 02:06:19 +0000, HERC wrote:

> I used to have only WinXP installed on my computer, but then I wanted to
> have dual-boot and I installed Mandrake 10.0....well to cut the story
> short...I didn't like it, and now how do I uninstall Mandrake 10.0.
>
> p.s. I installed Grub on my MBR....
>
> -Thanks-

I think the windoze command to restore the mbr to the windoze on one is
fdisk /mbr
You can then reformat the partition as you please.
The other alternative is that you could try other distributions of linux
by installing them over Mandrake.

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jafar wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 02:06:19 +0000, HERC wrote:
> 
>
> I think the windoze command to restore the mbr to the windoze on one
> is fdisk /mbr
> You can then reformat the partition as you please.
> The other alternative is that you could try other distributions of
> linux by installing them over Mandrake.
>

The more recent versions of windows, including Win2K and WinXP use the
fixmbr command instead and the command must be run from a rescue
console from the windows cd disk.

You can insert the Mandrake install cd disk 1 and at the opening screen
press F1 and then key in Rescue.  This will give you a rescue menu and
one of the items in the menu is a choice to re-install your Windows
MBR.  This will copy back the MBR that was set aside by Mandrake's
installer when it installed linux.

Of course, you will still have to remove the linux partitions and format
windows partitions in the empty space that was formerly occupied by
linux, but you can do this from the windows rescue console after you
have restored the windows mbr and booted into windows.

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