Help! Please! I have just formatted my linux and windows partitions using partition magic (I have found out this was a bad idea). Now when I reboot Grub still comes up. I need to remove Grub. I have all FAT32 partitions and I want to setup only windows OSes. However, i cannot use a boot disk or boot to the WinXP or Win98 CDs to access fdisk /mbr or the recovery console! I seem only to be able to boot to my linux cd - not the floppy. I have been into the BIOS settings too, floppy and CD are set to boot before the HDD. Perhaps I am missing something obvious. I am in real trouble. TIA.

If you can only boot off your linux CD, I would say that there is a problem with your WinXP CD and windoze boot floppy....see if you can get a mate to do you another floppy from win9x so you can fdisk /mbr. Does it even attempt to boot from floppy? If you put in a non-bootable floppy....does it come back with an error? If you can successfully boot into a windoze setup, it should overwrite your grub bootloader anyway.

See the other message on Remove LILO topic :) Insert your Linux CD, goto shell console and type:.. This will clear the MBR for good #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 p/s:be carefull...