Delete Linux from dual boot

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Uninstall GRUB/LILO and recover MBR booting into Recovery Console off
Windows CD and using the *fixmbr* command, maybe *fixboot*. Run *map*
beforehand. Then delete and recreate former Linux partitions.
If you use NT loader already then edit the %systemdrive%\boot.ini file and
delete the lines related to Linux via Windows Explorer or System
Properties/Advanced/Startup & Recovery, button Edit within System startup
area.
 
I keep seing references to fixboot and fixmbr
lately. Where do I find these commands? They don't
seem to be anywhere on my HD or the Win2K install CD.
 
They are "MS DOS" W2k and XP recovery console commands. Google will
bring up the MS help etc info for them both.
 
I have the win2K recovery console installed (as a
boot menu item) but it still doesn't seem to be there.
 
Maybe my sources - several MS help pages - were wrong or I misread 'em.
But if they're DOS commands, I think their code would be buried in the
DOS command interpreter, no? They'd not be separate named files...

Sorry if I've misled you.
 
Dan said:
Maybe my sources - several MS help pages - were wrong or I misread 'em.
But if they're DOS commands, I think their code would be buried in the
DOS command interpreter, no? They'd not be separate named files...
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Oh no ... most (by far) dos commands were (are)
separate .com or .exe files. Only a few most
basic, necessary commands were built into the
command interpreter (DIR, DEL, REN CD MD RD COPY
PATH VER TYPE ... can't think of any others).

The CMD 32-bit command interpreter may have
expanded on that a little but I wouldn't think by
much.
Sorry if I've misled you.
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No problem, Dan. You've been more than helful in
the past. I'd sure still like to find out about
fixboot and fixmbr though. Might help me with a
little current problem.

I'l have to dig around a bit more.
 
Dan said:
Maybe my sources - several MS help pages - were wrong or I misread 'em.
But if they're DOS commands, I think their code would be buried in the
DOS command interpreter, no? They'd not be separate named files...

Sorry if I've misled you.
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Dan, on further investigation I think you may have
been effectively right in the first place. Since I
have the recovery console installed as a boot
menue item, I simply looked in the console
directory in the HD, assuming that fixboot and
fixmbr were external commands.

I believe now that they are, as you hinted at,
built in to the recovery console command
interpreter (but not the regular cmd command
interpreter). As such, they would only be
accessible by actually running the command
interpreter.

I think this is probably what you meant and I
misinterpreted it.

(So the other recent poster who wants to put them
onto a floppy/CD would be SOL. Unless anyone knows
of a way of firing up the command console as a
standalone from a removable media without going
through all the lengthy hassle of booting the
install cd and finding something to occupy the
time while it's "doing it's thing" That would
actually be quite useful. Wonder if there's any
way to add it to a Bart's Boot Disk).
 
Woof - thanx for that graceful prior post, absolution is refreshing
whether needed or not. I enjoyed "helful" too :-)

I have no idea what the structure of recovery console is, what exactly
is invoked, and what if any portions are actually shared with the main
OS set...and what I suggested was pretty much a stab in the dark,
assisted by the uniform web-page prominent notices that these 2
functions are available only thru recovery console.

Someone designing/building a "recovery console" would probably want to
keep the loaded code structurally pretty simple, even monolithic, maybe,
perhaps, possibly? One CRC fits all...? Nah, that's TOO simple.

But then, so am I.
 
Dan said:
Woof - thanx for that graceful prior post, absolution is refreshing
whether needed or not. I enjoyed "helful" too :-)
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Oh gosh, darn. My regular typing finger got tired
and I used another (less experienced) one. I'll
have words with it.
I have no idea what the structure of recovery console is, what exactly
is invoked, and what if any portions are actually shared with the main
OS set...and what I suggested was pretty much a stab in the dark,
assisted by the uniform web-page prominent notices that these 2
functions are available only thru recovery console.
Click to expand...
Someone designing/building a "recovery console" would probably want to
keep the loaded code structurally pretty simple, even monolithic, maybe,
perhaps, possibly? One CRC fits all...? Nah, that's TOO simple.
Click to expand...

It certainly would be nice if you could get to
this from a bootable CD without all the loading
"overhead" of the install CD.
 
We have that NT/HAL-related "overhead" loading either RC or WinPE or ERD
Commander or just running setup. I believe when MS would decide that fixing
either MBR or Partition Table is not so destructive anymore it would provide
fixmbr and fixboot as separate 16-bit executables.
 
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