MBR restore

[Roiie 530x2]

HI i have very stupidly installed Fedora 7 on my computer and set GRUB to instal on the master boot record, but now i want to switch it back to normal, unfortunately i do not have the windows dvd around.

What can i do to fix / restore the MBR?

Any help appreciated :)

Thxs in advance
~~Roiie

[bobbyraw]

do u want to remove the program or just take it off the boot order

[Roiie 530x2]

Well any or both, i basically want the system to act like if i never installed grub

[bobbyraw]

it will be very hard without the dvd, but there a few things you can try
down load and use vista boot pro, u can use it to edit the boot edit file, or just to remove any mention of other operating sysem from the boot order.

[Roiie 530x2]

Alright i will download it, try and post the results

[bobbyraw]

let me know how that work out

[Roiie 530x2]

OK i installed it and tried it, reboot, didnt work

so i thought i would give a more in depth look into my issue

i have fedora 7 installed (still is) along with the /boot partition on my hard drive...

i would delete them and stay with the windows one if it wasnt because if i delete them then grub doesnt start properly and just gives me a black screen that says a bunch a stuff about what happens when pressing <TAB> and then says GRUB>_ (with the underscore blinking)... ok gettin of topic... the thing is that if i delete those partitions from the harddrive i cant access windows at all :S ....

Any advice?

EDIT:

lol let me rephrase... lol any solutions xD??

[bobbyraw]

give this a read it have some usefull info,

did u install fedora on the same partition as vista? was the HDD partitions?

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html

[Roiie 530x2]

give this a read it have some usefull info,

did u install fedora on the same partition as vista? was the HDD partitions?

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html

NO i did not install it in the same partition as vista.

Yes i had partitioned my hard drive originally to fit Vista in 40 GB, my personal documents in 20GB and d rest unallocated (which then became Fedora 7)

OK i'll take a look @ it first ting tomorrow, right now its late got work to do so yeah, thanks.

[scru]

Hold on i had this problem (but with ubuntu) There was this app i launched from my flash drive during boot up. I think its call fixmbr. Google it.

HTH

[Roiie 530x2]

Thank you scru, googling i found an aplication called "MbrFix.exe" that successfully fixed my mbr heres the site of donload if anyone else comes across this problem

http://www.sysint.no/en/Download.aspx

Heres the instructions too

http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm

Thanks everyone for their help
~Roiie