How to remove Mint 14 Dual boot ?

[Darkst4r]

Hi, I tried out Linux Mint last week and although it's a decent operating system, I've found I'm just wasting time and effort trying to get it to function like Windows when really I should have just stuck with Windows !

My question is how do I completely remove Mint from my system ?

The dual boot files were installed on my main C: drive, which has my Installation of Windows 7 on.

The ACTUAL Mint operating system was installed onto a separate internal 500gb drive.

Windows now will not recognise that drive, so at the moment I cannot just format over the top and then somehow get rid of the boot files from the C drive.

Any guidance would be great, thanks.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Odd that windows won't recoginise the drive. But if you run Gparted from a Linux Live CD you can remove the partitions from the drive with that.

The other problem is likely to be the GRUB bootloader, the Windows partition needs to be marked as Active if you reinstall a Windows bootloader. Probably easiest to change the timeout on the GRUB bootloader to 0 seconds and make sure its set to boot Windows by default.

Reinstalling a Windows bootloader used to be simple with a an FDISK /MBR from a rescue floppy, I'm not sure how you'd go about it nowadays.

 

[BigglesPiP]

No! Only GRUB stage 1 is on the first drive, this loads GRUB stage 2 from the 500G drive, which then can load either mint from the second drive or windows from the first one. In other words it will fail to boot if you erase the 500G drive.

In the XP days you would boot of the windows CD, chose R for recovery console and run fixmbr. Now I've seen the Windows 7 disk is a little more hands off, I think you can just boot from the windows disk and let it fix it for you, by putting the MS bootloader on the first drive.