To uninstall Red Hat Linux from your system, you will need to remove the GRUB or LILO
information from your master boot record (MBR).
In DOS, NT, and Windows 95 you can use fdisk to
create a new MBR with the "undocumented" flag
/mbr. This will ONLY rewrite the MBR to boot the
primary DOS partition. The command should look like the following:
If you need to remove Linux from a hard drive, and have attempted to do
this with the default DOS fdisk, you will
experience the "Partitions exist but they do not exist" problem. The best
way to remove non-DOS partitions is with a tool that understands
partitions other than DOS.
You can do this with the installation media by typing linux
expert at the boot:
prompt:
Select install (versus upgrade) and at the point when you should partition
the drive, choose fdisk. In
fdisk, type [p] to print out the
partition numbers, and remove the Linux partitions with the
[d] command. When you are satisfied with the changes you
have made, you can quit with a [w] and the changes will be
saved to disk. If you deleted too much, type [q] and no
changes will be made.
Once you have removed the Linux partitions, you can reboot your computer
using
[Control]-[Alt]-[Delete] instead of continuing with the install.
