Remove GRUB from second hard drive

[nestusv]

Hi all, I have a second hard drive in my computer. It had Linux on it. I now want to use it in another computer with Windows 7, but Grub repair comes up and I cannot get past it. Here are my next set of problems. My second computer does not have a DVD drive and does not have a USB Boot Bios option. I therefore cannot do anything on the second computer. I have to fix the hard drive as a second hard drive on my first computer. Formatting the hard drive does not delete GRUB. So how do I get rid of GRUB on a second hard drive? Thanks.

 

[wpgwpg]

Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Delete all the partitions on the drive, then create a new partition and format it.

Good luck.

 

[Chicano]

If you did a quick format, try the full format option. Previous suggestion should be quicker but in the remote case it doesn't work, try any of the following suggestions.

Remove Grub with EasyBCD
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=271243
http://neosmart.net/

Remove Grub from Windows 7 Startup Repair (Win 7 DVD/USB)
http://askubuntu.com/questions/151253/removing-grub-from-windows-system-after-uninstalling-ubuntu-from-windows-7

Use a third party Partition Manager to fix the partition table (MBR or GPT)
http://partition-recovery.com/doc_delete_part.html
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

Remove Grub with Low Level Format Tool (it erases all data from a HDD leaving it completely blank and adds ones and zeros)
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

 

[nestusv]

Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Delete all the partitions on the drive, then create a new partition and format it.

Good luck.

Thanks, I've tried this option several times. No luck 🙂

 

[wpgwpg]

It's always worked for me, but maybe you could make a Linux Mint (or other distro) DVD, boot from it, and use one of the disk management utilities there. I have to comment when you say you've tried the above with no luck, you aren't giving any details somebody would need to help you.

Good luck.