Is there a safe way to remove openSUSE from a second partition without messing up my Vista partition or the Master Boot Record?
If grub is installed in the MBR, it will point to files on the second partition, and if you delete that partition, the files won’t exist, which means grub will fail, and you will not be able to boot your PC from your hard drive. So, if you have grub installed in the Master Boot Record, then the very first thing you should do is restore the Vista code into the Master Boot Record (replacing grub).
Once the MBR is successfully restored/tested to the “Vista default” code (what ever that might be) and grub replaced from the MBR, then you should be able to boot to a liveCD (such as Gparted or PartedMagic - free GPL software ) , or Partition Magic (commercial software) and reformat the second partition to something Vista can access.
hi there
insert your vista dvd and boot from it, go to the vista command line (i believe its in the Rescue program)
then 2 commands:
a) bootrec /fixboot
b) bootrec /fixmbr
then vista should be back on service.
good luck
Thanks, I’ll try.
It doesn’t quite work. /fixmbr was successful but I got an error message when doing /fixboot something like…
“Unable to find system files in the volume, make sure the installation drivers are properly added and the volume is not corrupted.”
I’m sure the volume is not corrupted, where is the required system files. Is it in C://Windows, somewhere?
Can anyone help?