Nixie Pixel
March 11th, 2009, 04:10 AM
Hi, I am using an old IDE drive in a newly built system, and I have some problems. I'm trying to get my primary SATA drive to boot, but BIOS won't let me choose it as my boot HDD because I have an IDE drive with an MBR on it. That MBR apparently contains GRUB (which fails when it is run), but I don't know why - it was never used as a boot drive. I did format a portion of it with NTFS and another portion with ext3, but I never booted to it, never thought I put GRUB on it, and never thought its boot sector would be altered.
Anyway, it does have a bunch of data that I want to keep, so I don't want to mess up my partition table. I can't very well hot swap it in, so I'm sort of stuck, as I'm really unfamiliar with boot sectors and how to manipulate them.
Is there a way I can use an Ubuntu Live CD to remove GRUB or to otherwise make it so I can boot to my SATA drive while my IDE drive is plugged in? The SATA drive currently has Vista Ultimate 64 on it.
Thanks!
Anyway, it does have a bunch of data that I want to keep, so I don't want to mess up my partition table. I can't very well hot swap it in, so I'm sort of stuck, as I'm really unfamiliar with boot sectors and how to manipulate them.
Is there a way I can use an Ubuntu Live CD to remove GRUB or to otherwise make it so I can boot to my SATA drive while my IDE drive is plugged in? The SATA drive currently has Vista Ultimate 64 on it.
Thanks!