On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Mário Gamito gamito@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I have this dual boot Vista-CentOS.

I have one NTFS for Vista, and three for CentOS. I boot to both OS through grub.

Unfortunately, I'm going to need the CentOS space for Vista :( :( :(

So my question is: if I remove the CentOS partitions *from within Vista* with its tool for it, will I be able to still boot Vista ?

Is grub going to disappear ?

If so, will Vista replace it for its own boot manager, thus allowing to boot it ?

Or what ?

I've googled about it, but couldn't find a definitive answer and I can't afford losing my Vista data.

Any help would be appreciated.

Warm Regards, Mário _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

if you wanna delete linux partitions completely , you will unfortunately can't load vista when you start up , the reason is , grub itself won't disappear , but grub can't load configuration file which placed under /boot ( because you deleted it )

don't panic , anyway , you won't lose your files on vista , you can fix the MBR with Windows' own tool and it will boot your windows as normal

i recommend you try this first in your virtual machine , install two systems , windows for first , linux for second , and delete the linux partitions , and try to fix the MBR to boot the Windows , when you made it in your virtual machine , you'll make it in your real one :)

sorry for my poor english , hope you can understand it fully , cheers

Mário Gamito wrote:

Hi,

I have this dual boot Vista-CentOS.

I have one NTFS for Vista, and three for CentOS. I boot to both OS through grub.

Unfortunately, I'm going to need the CentOS space for Vista :( :( :(

So my question is: if I remove the CentOS partitions *from within Vista* with its tool for it, will I be able to still boot Vista ?

Is grub going to disappear ?

If so, will Vista replace it for its own boot manager, thus allowing to boot it ?

Or what ?

I've googled about it, but couldn't find a definitive answer and I can't afford losing my Vista data.

Any help would be appreciated.

Warm Regards, Mário _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Hi

If you are deleting /boot partition or if you dont have a separate /boot partition and boot partition is mounted under / and if you delete that partition for more space yes you will have trouble booting vista. As grub cant find the kernel and menu.lst file you would see the normal grub command prompt rather than seeing a grub menu.

The easiest fix for this issue is even if you delete your linux partitions what the best you can do is fix/rewrite the mbr for vista which can be did easily with a bootable vista cd. http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__...

Follow the above url from Repair your computer and proceed till the startup repair step and once you are done reboot the machine you should see your vista boot screen.

Hope this fixes your issue.

-- Regards,

Mohan.