Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012 schrieb Guido Martínez: > Hi, Hi Guido,
> I recently borrowed a hard drive and installed debian on it, alongside > windows. I used it for a couple of weeks. > > Later, I tried to remove debian by deleting the partitions I had > installed it on, but that caused grub to fail horribly, and I had to > reinstall debian. How can I remove debian? Can I make grub ignore that > partition and then delete it? You need to install a MBR record and set the Windows partition as bootable. The package mbr should have such an MBR. It seems to have a command named "install-mbr". Should be pretty straight forward, but I never had to do it. Otherwise you´d need some kind of Windows rescue CD/DVD and restore the Windows boot loader from there. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201201052000.53084.mar...@lichtvoll.de
