I am seeking to do the reverse of most users. I want to *_purge_* the Live USB installation from a USB thumb drive (formatted as FAT32 aka vfat, like almost all USB drives) and to use another USB drive as the emergency-cum-demonstration Ubuntu drive.
Briefly, the story is that my most compact USB drive (which also is the one with the largest capacity) is loaded with an old version of Ubuntu. I have moved it onto the key ring with my house keys and want to use it from now on purely as a data backup device. I do *_not_* want it to bring up a Linux install menu on computers that have a USB device as the first line in their boot path (which is the case of many modern laptops).
It appears that I should replace the existing GRUB bootloader on the USB drive with something more plain vanilla. After doing that, I can presumably simply erase the Linux install directories. These take up over 2GB, so I will also recover a lot of space on my data backup drive.
How do I replace the bootable GRUB setup with something "plain vanilla"?
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