installed android x86 to netbook, please help uninstall (grub)

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Gary

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Jun 5, 2010, 4:23:26 AM6/5/10
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hello,

I installed android tonight to try it out, and was having issues with
wifi (it connects to my network fine but browser won't load pages).
anyways, the issue arose when I realized I had no option to boot into
windows anymore. I have no idea how to edit grub from within android,
and I'd really at this point like to just get rid of android/grub
outright.. I have no problem with the android part but can anyone
suggest how I might get rid of grub permanently so I can boot properly
to windows?

I installed android on a 4 GB partition I made, seperate of my windows
partition (but same hdd)

I tried booting with a bootable dos usb key and running fdisk /mbr
(it's a 98SE boot image) but that doesn't work, grub still loads

my recovery files and restore image are on the first two partitions,
windows 7 is on partition 3, and android is on partition 4

I tried the 'super grub cd' I think it's called and tried numerous
options in there without success, including the fixboot option to no
avail..

I'm not sure what other info would help, but I would definitely
appreciate suggestions at this point to either a) add the appropriate
grub entries to be able to dual boot and access my recovery partitions
properly or b) get rid of grub and ultimately android as well (for
now) so I can get back to how I was before I hit that 'install
android' option earlier tonight :)

thank you!
gary

Rystraum Gamonez

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Jun 5, 2010, 4:38:07 PM6/5/10
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Hi Gary,

If you have other linux live CD's lying around, maybe you can try editing the menu.lst at the <partition 4>/grub/ and set in parameters through the live CD. Or at least, set grub to drop you to a grub shell instead of booting directly into android.
That way, you can try different boot configurations on the fly.


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Shawn Winnie

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Jun 5, 2010, 5:10:47 PM6/5/10
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Boot to a Win98 dos prompt and use Fdisk /MBR.

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