roy20
October 21st, 2009, 12:46 PM
Hello All,
Going back to the original Samsung NC10 MBR doesn't seem to be easily possible. My NC10 is currently dual boot with Ubuntu and XP. I need to put things back as I have to return the computer for service and I want as little aggro from the engineers as possible.
The NC10's Recovery Partition *go back to the first stored configuration* will overwrite drive C: but will *not* replace the MBR. I've tried this and it doesn't in my case at least.
Why would I want to? Well I'd like to get rid of the Linux Grub boot-loader - I can easily remove the linux partitions with tools like Partition Manager. OK the XP re-install CD will put back XP as the sole op system but things like the F4 boot recovery would then get wiped out I think as it resides on a Vista op system hidden partition all of its own.
One idea I did have was to use something like Partition Manager (it's often free as a cover mount on PC mags in the UK) - that has a restore MBR option, but it would again be the default XP one I think. To do this a bootable USB memory device could be created with nLite.
Any suggestions?
Roy
Going back to the original Samsung NC10 MBR doesn't seem to be easily possible. My NC10 is currently dual boot with Ubuntu and XP. I need to put things back as I have to return the computer for service and I want as little aggro from the engineers as possible.
The NC10's Recovery Partition *go back to the first stored configuration* will overwrite drive C: but will *not* replace the MBR. I've tried this and it doesn't in my case at least.
Why would I want to? Well I'd like to get rid of the Linux Grub boot-loader - I can easily remove the linux partitions with tools like Partition Manager. OK the XP re-install CD will put back XP as the sole op system but things like the F4 boot recovery would then get wiped out I think as it resides on a Vista op system hidden partition all of its own.
One idea I did have was to use something like Partition Manager (it's often free as a cover mount on PC mags in the UK) - that has a restore MBR option, but it would again be the default XP one I think. To do this a bootable USB memory device could be created with nLite.
Any suggestions?
Roy