Linux Getting grub out the boot sector

In the past i've attempted dual booting on my gaming rig and usually given up for a number of reasons and gone back to the hardware of my nice quiet machine since i have got every thing working on that. However i'm going to give dual booting another go since i need to reinstall xp again any way, but heres the question how do you get grub out of the boot sector. In the past i've always resorted to zero filling the disk since everything thing i've tried has ended up with windows unable to boot after the cd stage since the NTldr doesn't seem to be in the boot sector. I've a lot more experience with this stuff now that i did last time i tried this but i'm still a bit nervous of have to shift all my files across the network to format the disk just so i can get windows to boot.

 

Wipe the Linux partition(s), then boot with the XP cd in. Go into the recovery console, fix the boot record, then fix the Master boot record. (They're both simple commands, I don't remember which ones, though. It's fairly self-explanatory.) Reboot, eject the CD, and it should boot into Windows.

That's the way I did it, anyways. YRMV, don't forget to back your important stuff up.

 

cheers

 

Used many a time

FIXMBR then FIXBOOT to get rid of Grub or Lilo (If in the MBR).

 

NM.

 

alternative

If you have a DOS boot disk (see http://www.bootdisk.com/) that has fdisk on it you can use:

to reset the master boot record. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013 for details.

Cheers,
dhm

 

Thats what i used to do but it never seemed to have much effect.