Remove GRUB with LiveCD?

[rodtempleton]

Good morning,

My setup is (was) as follows:

Drive 0: 80GB Windows XP
Drive 1: Ubuntu 9.04

My brother in law, for some unknown reason, went into the Windows disk management, and removed the Linux partitions, and formatted the drive with NTFS, and then copied some data onto that drive for me. I wasn't particularly happy about this, but....

However, last night when Windows Update ran, it forced a reboot of the machine, and when GRUB tried to load, it barfed. Unfortunately I don't have an easily obtainable Windows CD to use to repair the boot loader.

Is there any way to use the live CD to go in and remove GRUB so that the machine will boot into Windows again? Or is removing GRUB not going to be enough?

Or would a Damn Small Linux or Knoppix CD do the trick?

Any information that anyone could provide would be very greatly appreciated.

(And yes, I'm going to password protect everything so that people can't mess with my machine ever again, too. Lesson learned.)

Thanks,
Rod Templeton

[SuperSonic4]

Grub should be able to direct the computer to the windows bootloader without an issue but if it cannot it's screwed

normally grub has a chainloader function which simply links to the windows boot

[raymondh]

Try to download Hiren's CD (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd) and use its' MBR tools to fix/restore your MBR.

You can also try supergrubdisk.

If you choose to try to re-install GRUB, here's Herman's site (http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15.html) for workarounds/tips.

Good luck.

Raymond

[sokolenko]

I think that removing grub will fit,
here you are manual how to do that
ntcompatible.com/How_to_remove_GRUB_loader_t28242.html