Uninstall Red Hat

[Monko6]

Howdy,
I installed Red Hat on my Dad's pc, but I'm leaving home and he wants me to uninstall it. How do I go about that as to not leave anything? Should I reformat the hard drive (Linux is the only thing on that hard drive. Windows runs on a different harddrive) that I installed it on? That for all the help that you guys gave me in the past. Talk to ya'll again once I'm in my new home.

Monk

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[Icarus]

You don't...make him run Red Hat from now on! :D

Where did you setup Grub/Lilo? If it was on the Red Hat drive you should be able to yank the drive and the Windows loader should still be intact on the other drive...

If you loaded Grub/Lilo on the Windows drive...you'll need to get a Win98 boot disk to boot to a DOS prompt, then type "fdisk /mbr" and (I've never tried this next part without a re-install) Windows will take over the MBR and boot from there...

[Monko6]

once I do the fdisk/mbr then how do I get rid of all the info on the drive that used to be Linux? Fdisk does't recongnize it, or doesn't show it for some reason. Any suggestions.

[chrisnu]

If you boot from your Linux install CD, you can use the fdisk on the CD to delete the Linux partitions. Had to do that once, sadly.

[Icarus]

If you have a Win2k or XP cd, these are able to reformat and install to put everything in MS laws :)

[Monko6]

Thanks everybody. Everything worked fine. Did a fdisk /mbr and then reformated the drive using fdisk and its back to normal. Thanks again for the help.

Monk