Ethan Hunt Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 First, let me explain my problem. I installed 3 different linux distros on my pc and boot them together with windows using grub. However, spring cleaning is here and I want to remove all of them. The major problem is that this computer doesn't have a cd-rom, nor a floppy drive, and cannot boot from a usb either. I understand that the only way to make my windows load after I delete the 3 partitions that have the linux distros is to run the fixmbr (or fixboot) command from the recovery console. However I really can't get to that recovery console on this machine. So I'm searching for an alternative to fixmbr that can run from windows itself... I found several sources that said that such a thing is possible and I also found a tool called MbrFix <-- lol, that supposebly does the thing I need it to do, but I'm scared as hell to run it cuz it doesn't have any info related to the author, nor does it have an instruction manual (readme).. The damn thing doesn't have an icon ffs :D I'm asking you good people of Hak5town to help me out and point me to a tool that you have used and works! Thanks a lot! V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I'd just stick with grub in that situation to be honest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted May 15, 2007 Author Share Posted May 15, 2007 Upon some more research I found out the company's web site and decided to give them a try. I downloaded the program and tried it. This time with a readme file :D It is a command prompt based program, very easy to use and it works! GRUB is gone, MBR is fixed (or so they say) and my win-xp booted up :D If any1 has any similar problems the program can be found at: http://www.sysint.no . They have some other programs there too but I don't have the time now... V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Sounds cool, thanks for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I thought the best fix was to simply run 'fdisk /MBR' from a command prompt. No messing around with external programs or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted May 15, 2007 Author Share Posted May 15, 2007 Yeah, the best fix would be that. But u c my situation required me to stay in windows, and fdisk doesn't exist in win-xp command prompt as a command. And I had no way of running anything from dos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 fdisk doesn't exist in win-xp command prompt as a command. It doesn't? Wow. And there's also no option that has a similar effect in the Drive Manager (as I believe it's called). Forgive me, Bill Gates, for I have sinned. It's been YEARS since I last used Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Forgive me, Bill Gates, for I have sinned. It's been YEARS since I last used Windows. Nice, I'm going to have to steal that quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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