I have a Windows\/Linux dual-booting computer that I don’t want to be dual boot anymore– the Linux part needs to go. Thus, the GRUB bootloader needs to be removed so that Windows boots normally. I found lots of tips around the internet about how to do this. Of course, none of them worked. So I must add to the general body of knowledge.<\/p>\n
I found tips that described how to manually remove GRUB via Linux– by using Other forums and sites mentioned a combination of utilities found on the Windows CD-ROM including FIXBOOT, FIXMBR, and BOOTCFG. While these programs performed some functions, they didn’t achieve the desired effect– to make Windows boot automatically.<\/p>\n New idea:<\/strong> Repartition the disk such that there is a (relatively) tiny extra partition. Then, well… reinstall Linux<\/em>. I used a 4 GB partition and Ubuntu 10.10 and let it run its course which ended with installing GRUB… again.<\/p>\n Seems roundabout– installing Linux specifically to boot into Windows. But it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Using Linux to bootstrap Windows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}'dd'<\/code> to overwrite no more than 446 sectors of the boot disk with zeros. This strikes me as a dangerous and unstable proposition. It also wasn’t an option since I had already opted to reformat the formerly Linux partition via the Windows CD-ROM before I endeavored to remove the bootloader.<\/p>\n