Restoring original MBR

[Edward Lichtner]

Hi,
I am preparing to install FC6 on some unpartitionned disk space, on a machine running Vista on one partition and XP on another partition, with Vista's boot loader managing OS selection on startup. I assume grub will be installed as preferred boot loader and will replace Vista's boot loader (correct ?).
If I ever wish to delete FC6 altogether and restore the machine to it's current stage, how do I remove grub (or whatever boot loader is installed with Fedora) and restore Vista's boot loader ?
Alternatively, would it make better sense to skip installing grub and adjust Vista's boot loader to manage OS selection between Vista, XP and FC6 ?
Thanks in advance guys.
Edward

[Brian1]

You can do the following to reset the MBR.
Boot up with a win9x disc and run the command ' fdisk /mbr '
Or with a windows xp boot disc run the command ' fixmbr '

Brian

[Edward Lichtner]

Will 'fixmbr' with an xp boot disk reset the MBR for a Vista installation ?

Otherwise, I know '/sbin/lilo -u' should get rid of Lilo and reset the original MBR (correct ?). Is there any similar command for grub ?

Edward

[Dies]

http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_b...nstalled_first

Here's a how-to, it's for Ubuntu but it should work as is for Fedora. Just use 'su -' then skip the 'sudo'.

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Or you can just install grub into the Fedora partition and have Vista's loader boot it.

[Edward Lichtner]

OK, EasyBCD seems like the way to go. I have freed up some disk space using Vista's Disk Manager utility. Then installed EasyBCD. I am currently installing FC6 on the available disk space. I have requested Grub to be installed on the linux partition rather than on the MBR.
I intend to use Easy BCD to add Linux to the Vista boot menu.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Edward