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Topic: Uninstalling Grub

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Posted: Sep. 19 2007,08:50

How do I uninstall the Grub bootloader on a formated hdd?

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mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 19 2007,12:55

Installing a new bootloader should do it. If you plan to install a new operating system on that harddrive, the installation disk will probably already be bootable. As long as your bios is set to boot from the installation media (cdrom, usually) before the harddisk, it should ignore the existing bootloader.

You could probably also use the dd command to overwrite the boot sector of the drive.

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