Whats the best way to uninstall RH 7.2

[Kinstonian]

For some reason windows hangs either right after or durring the loading of the autoexec.bat and in order for me to get to windows it has to hang there and then i have to hit the reboot button and thres a 80 percent chance it will load that time.

So i want to uninstall RH 7.2 with grub and then reinstall win98 and then install RH 7.2 again. I tried using partition magic to uninstall it but it can't work with ext3.. Anyone know the best way to uninstall RH 7.2?

[z0mbix]

Re-run the RH installation and delete your linux partitions, write them to the partition table, then restart windows. In DOS, just type "fdisk /mbr" to re-write the master boot record.

[Kinstonian]

Originally posted by cheeky_zombie:
<STRONG>Re-run the RH installation and delete your linux partitions, write them to the partition table, then restart windows. In DOS, just type "fdisk /mbr" to re-write the master boot record.</STRONG>


Hmm i can do that but you lost me on the write them to the partition table part.. how do i do that?

Thanks

[mychl]

That basicly means save your changes. When using a partitioning tool, you can set up the scheme you want, but it's not actualy getting written to the disk until you write them to the partition table...

HTH...

And by the way... why don't you just use a boot disk for linux... reinstall windows, then use the boot disk to get back into linux, then install lilo again... might save you some work...

[deadlock]

I could be wrong about this, but I don't know if Disk Druid (RedHat's partition manager) will let you save your changes if you don't have at least one swap partition and a Linux Native partition. It might refuse to write the table on the basis that you have no / mountpoint defined. There's no harm in trying though.

If you have a Windows NT/2k/XP CD handy, you could boot from that - when you get to the partition manager, you'll be able to delete all of your partitions quite easily, even the ext3 ones from your Linux installation. You'll have to define your Windows partition at this point, otherwise it won't proceed, but once it has written the table and formatted the partition, reboot the machine without the CD in the drive to prevent setup from copying any files.

If you do choose this option, make sure you format your drive as FAT16 (or 32 with Win2k), rather than NTFS, otherwise you'll be back to square one!

[ 03 December 2001: Message edited by: wonk ]

[soleblazer]

He is saying to resintall the master boot record (first few odd bytes of the disk) that NT uses so that you won't have any problems with Windows. Normally that would load lilo , but you want it to run the windows boot loader, so in windows just issue that command.