[danhu]

i have the following problem: i have a laptop with a WIN XP and FC4 partition. the other day when i booted FC4 it told me that the linux filesystem is damaged. it takes me into the console as root but thats it. i transferred all my data to the windows partition. so long story short: how can i remove the linux & swap partitions from this harddrive without having to reinstall windows? is there a way to access the MBR to remove the grub loader so when i boot it'll automatically start with windows? i have partition magic on windows but im afraid that just deleting the linux partition wont do the trick. please help, thanks a lot

dan

[bob]

I'll paste in this article because it describes it all pretty well: http://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/archive/index.php/t-61933.html

Certainly the 'fixmbr' is the way to restore XP as the sole boot option, but I was a little afraid about how to keep XP intact and recover the drive space. Just the same, I'd back up my data before I tried it. If successful, please report back on your results so that we can confirm to others that it worked properly.

[danhu]

it worked. had the problem tho that my laptop came with setup and recovery cd's where win xp is only as an img file, so i had to remove SP2 and install the recovery console afterwards. fixmbr was successful and i deleted/merged my partitions with PartitionMagic. thanks alot for the link :)