by TeraByte Support(TP) » Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:39 am
samting wrote:
> TeraByte Support wrote:
> > If you want to put back the standard mbr code -you would go to "view
> mbr"
> > then click the button to install std mbr - apply. However, you really
> > don't
> > have anything to boot?
>
> Thanks for your response and you're right: there's nothing yet to boot. The restore
> partition is willing to do its thing, but even when it finishes and restores the OS
> to defaults, Grub still starts up in rescue mode. So my thinking is to rid the
> machine of Grub and let Restore do its job.
>
> I had thought, since there were two MBRs, that removing one of them might do the
> trick. My problem is that all "official" ways to remove grub rely on a
> working linux system - all erased by me. If it is not possible to simply re-do a MBR
> to destroy Grub, I'll resort to a USB version of linux and see if I can work on
> deleting Grub from there.
>
> Any advice? I feel foolish for deleting the linux partitions with BingNG - I had
> thought that I could return to Windows by simple curettage. Didn't realize that I
> would leave the infection. Now I'm worried about cutting out some vital organ. Maybe
> surgeons shouldn't work on computers...
>
> Thanks for any help.
You don't need Linux available to be able to get rid of Grub. That can be done from BING as previously mentioned.
However, how are you managing to boot into your restore partition if Grub is coming up when you boot?
Can you see which partition is set active in Partition Work -> View MBR in BING?
Tom Pfeifer
TeraByte Support