Where is fixmbr.exe or bootsec.exe?

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I had successfully configured BCD to dual-boot Vista with OpenBSD, & it
worked great, but I made the mistake of installing Ubuntu which in turn
installed GRUB. At this point, I'd like to get rid of GRUB. Searching both
these communities & the Internet reveals either a bootsec.exe or fixmbr.exe
which might clean up my MBR of whatever GRUB wrote, but as I look on my Vista
partition, I don't find any utility by these names. What can I do/use to rip
GRUB out of my MBR?

Thanks.
 
ocicat said:
I had successfully configured BCD to dual-boot Vista with OpenBSD, & it
worked great, but I made the mistake of installing Ubuntu which in turn
installed GRUB. At this point, I'd like to get rid of GRUB. Searching both
these communities & the Internet reveals either a bootsec.exe or fixmbr.exe
which might clean up my MBR of whatever GRUB wrote, but as I look on my Vista
partition, I don't find any utility by these names. What can I do/use to rip
GRUB out of my MBR?
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Before you follow Jane's advice, you need to decide if you plan to
continue multi-booting between Windows and non-Windows OS's.

If you plan to keep any non-Windows OS on your machine you should
*keep* GRUB because it will let you do that easily, whereas it's
more complicated to use the Vista MBR.

I use GRUB to multi-boot between Vista, XP, OpenBSD, linux, etc with
no problems at all.
 
Don said:
If you plan to keep any non-Windows OS on your machine you should
*keep* GRUB because it will let you do that easily, whereas it's
more complicated to use the Vista MBR.
Click to expand...

For anyone else reading this thread, it's not difficult to use BCD to
multiboot non-Windows OS's through Vista. Here's a how-to that I wrote up
for the OpenBSD community:

http://www.freebsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48405

To boot Linux using BCD requires copying the appropriate partition boot
record (PBR) as described in the link above.
 
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