Removing a linux partition - useful tool

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So, I'm selling a laptop to someone on the forum, an active participant in the linux threads, I might add.

I told him/her* that the laptop currently dual boots between Vista and Linux Mint - did he/she want me to remove one or other of the OSes? He/she replied that I should remove the Mint partition and leave Vista.

/me happily whips out Gparted, two mins later no more linux partitions, just back to the pristine Vista + HP recovery partition.

Return to boot into windows -> Grub error 22. Doh. Hadn't thought about that.

But anyway, I found a useful tool that will allow me to boot back in there and fix the boot order: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/.

Haven't tried it out yet, but looks like it will do what I need it to - will report back later.

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Not mentioning any names, and yes, the "she" is probably redundant seeing as I said he/she is a linux forum participant. You know who you are. :)
 
I think I might have used that before. Windows kind of doesn't like anything but Windows bootloaders.... :p
 
chiskop said:
So, I'm selling a laptop to someone on the forum, an active participant in the linux threads, I might add.

I told him/her* that the laptop currently dual boots between Vista and Linux Mint - did he/she want me to remove one or other of the OSes? He/she replied that I should remove the Mint partition and leave Vista.

/me happily whips out Gparted, two mins later no more linux partitions, just back to the pristine Vista + HP recovery partition.

Return to boot into windows -> Grub error 22. Doh. Hadn't thought about that.

But anyway, I found a useful tool that will allow me to boot back in there and fix the boot order: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/.

Haven't tried it out yet, but looks like it will do what I need it to - will report back later.



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Not mentioning any names, and yes, the "she" is probably redundant seeing as I said he/she is a linux forum participant. You know who you are. :)
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:eek: Absolutely shocking! A Linux contributor who doesn't want linux on the laptop you selling him/her;)

Well I guess if worst comes to worse you could always tell the person what happened and get them to fix it;)

Let us know if you get it right:D

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Come to think of it, if I was buying a laptop I would probably format it with the Vista recovery partition as soon as I got it. Maybe that's why the person preferred Vista? Hmmm who knows?
 
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Heh, this might come in handy for a friend who was dual-booting XP and Red Hat, then added Ubuntu for a tri-boot setup. For whatever reason, his Ubuntu installation wouldn't load, but still managed to successfully install GRUB, so you could at least access XP and Red Hat.

Now, in his wisdom, he has somehow damaged GRUB, and it doesn't boot at all. Although, if I remember correctly, the error number was 17, not 22, not too sure about that though.

Will use this app to try to fix his boot issues if he hasn't managed to already.

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Linoman said:
:eek: Absolutely shocking! A Linux contributor who doesn't want linux on the laptop you selling him/her;)
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Terrible, I agree.
Linoman said:
Well I guess if worst comes to worse you could always tell the person what happened and get them to fix it;)
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I don't know if I would trust a VISTA-lover with something like that. And if I'm selling a laptop, I'd like it to be able to boot, at least. :D
Linoman said:
Come to think of it, if I was buying a laptop I would probably format it with the Vista recovery partition as soon as I got it. Maybe that's why the person preferred Vista? Hmmm who knows?
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Who knows indeed?

But for sure I will keep you all informed and updated.
 
Red Hat? I hope it's the enterprise one... the last publicly available RH9 is shocking... or at least by today's standards (max resolution is 800x600 :eek:)
 
How about running "fixmbr" from the recovery console, then after boot up, you can simply format the linux partition in "Disk Management"?
 
chiskop said:
HP Laptop - so it has a recovery partition, no discs.
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Ahh, ok. See the problem. I hate it when they don't provide any software CDs, when you actually paid for it.
 
I booted off a Vista install disk the other day and to my surprise there was no way to access fixmbr
 
ahh. well there you go. hopefully it is not something i will need to remember again.
 
Nod said:
Ahh, ok. See the problem. I hate it when they don't provide any software CDs, when you actually paid for it.
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They don't do so whatsoever. You have to create the recovery cd's yourself.
 
chiskop said:
Why so interested?

Laptop is @ home, me is @ work. Will look at it tonight.
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I dunno, curiosity you know anything to do with Linux I enjoy:p

*Runs away*

Hmmm almost feels like Christmas again for some reason.:eek:
 
On startup of all new HP laptops, a message bugs you about creating recovery DVDs. PLUS the people who sell the laptop to you should tell you to create recovery disks before you even start to use it.
 
web said:
Me wonders if Linoman is said recipient of the laptop. :confused:
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Nope:eek:

It is because I am almost ready to release Linobuntu Version 2;)

If it was me, I would love Linux on a laptop;)
 
Just boot off your linux mint cd or something.. when it loads up you get the option to install or boot off first hard disk. Try boot off that?

If that works f8 into safe mode and fixmbr?
 
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