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Old 03-17-2007, 07:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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how do i erase a hard drive's MBR. i have one here with some of my data on it but its MBR is GRUB. so how do i remove grub and make it windows MBR
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I beleive you just go to the recovery console and type fixmbr
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oh thanks..totally forgot about that !!
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