GRUB keeps on showing up

[FvD]

Dear All,

This is my first post on this forum and I would be very thankfull if anyone could help me out.

I installed Fedora a couple of months ago on my laptop.
I installed it on an extra partition I made especially for Fedora.

Due to the lack of space and the growing number of files on my hd I decided to get rid of Ferdora for now;
I tought this could easily be done by just formatting the drive it was on.

But I forgot about the boot loader GRUB

Every time I boot my coputer it stops and gives me a GRUB error.

I tried to just install windows, but it won't let me.

I took the hard disk out of my laptop, connected it trough an external hdd case to another laptop I have, and formatted the hard disk. hoping to remove GRUB. No luck.
GRUB still shows up.

WHAT CAN I DO????

I love linux, and will deffenately install it again in the future when hdd space is not an issue anymore, but for now, I just need to get Windows to work....

Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks.

[nlkrio]

this is very odd,because if you try a windows installation windows 'eat' grub and installs their own bootloader!Have you set your bios to boot from windows cd?

[steve941]

formatting doesnt remove grub, but writing over the mbr will. boot from fedora rescue do:
dd count=1 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda hda = drive with grub on it
or boot to windows cd -> recovery console and do:
fixmbr <drive>
oh .. only do use the "dd count= ..." if you don't have any data on the drive, because youll loose it, so try windows cd

[Firewing1]

1) Boot WinXP CD
2) Hit "r" for repair
3) Login to your C:\ system
4) Type

fixboot
fixmbr

answer "y" or "yes" to all quesitons asked.
Reboot.
Firewing1

[FvD]

strange ....

My brother gave me another windows XP cd,

And i got no GRUB error or anything.
It just let me install windows as usual.

very strange it wouldn't accept my own windows xp cd.
I tried it more than five times.

anyway everything works fine now.


thanks you all for thinking with me.

cheers.

[Firewing1]

if the new CD SP2 included?
EDIT: *is
Firewing1

[FvD]

no,
It was a 2002 version of XP
SP 1 wasn´t even installed on it.
had to download all the SPs.

[Firewing1]

Hmmmm..... That's odd. Maybe you're CD is damaged or corrupted.
Firewing1

[bob]

Ummm...if it came from a friend and was generated by "People Not From Redmond", I'm familiar with that copy. To boot that pup, you'd need to download the 6 floppy disks from the Microsoft site, start the boot from them and then it will load fine. Might have a bit of trouble with the 'verification' though.