Re: GRUB

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From: Bit Twister
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:41

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On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:17:51 GMT, Tim Teatro wrote:
> Hi. I had a Hard drive go haywire on be the other day. I havd disconnected
> it, but now i keep getting the message:
> 
>     GRUB: Hard Disk Error

Hmmm, maybe because grub is looking for menu.lst on the diks on your
desk to know what to boot?

> 
> I am almost sure there is nothing wrong with this hard droive, so how do I
> bypass grub and verify the Windows DMI pool?


Assuming that is a windows only disk, restore windows mbr
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=remove+linux+partition+fdisk+mbr

Results 1 - 10 of about 7,640. Search took 0.19 seconds.

other keywords would be fdisk /mbr for 95/98 windows
and fixboot and fixmbr for NT/2000/XP systems.

Please read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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