orion2008
March 3rd, 2010, 02:29 AM
What I wanted to do:
I have a laptop for work that runs Win/XP. I wanted to load Ubuntu 9.10 onto an external hard drive so that when I travel at night I can use Linux for my personal surfing, etc. Most of the time I will boot to Win and use the apps that I do for my job, then I will use the BIOS to boot off the external powered USB drive.
SO, what happened is this:
I installed Ubuntu and it recognized that there was a winXP install and it put GRUB on the main hard drive and if I don't have the external USB attached, it gives me a “disk not found” error and dumps to the grub-recovery> prompt.
What I need to do (so I don't get into trouble with my Co.) is remove the grub from the main drive so that it will boot clean into WinXP. How do I do that?
Thanks in advance for your help
I have a laptop for work that runs Win/XP. I wanted to load Ubuntu 9.10 onto an external hard drive so that when I travel at night I can use Linux for my personal surfing, etc. Most of the time I will boot to Win and use the apps that I do for my job, then I will use the BIOS to boot off the external powered USB drive.
SO, what happened is this:
I installed Ubuntu and it recognized that there was a winXP install and it put GRUB on the main hard drive and if I don't have the external USB attached, it gives me a “disk not found” error and dumps to the grub-recovery> prompt.
What I need to do (so I don't get into trouble with my Co.) is remove the grub from the main drive so that it will boot clean into WinXP. How do I do that?
Thanks in advance for your help