How Do You Remove Or Replace GRUB Bootloader From Inside Windows?
it sounds like you are swapping OUT the 80 gig windows HD with the 80 that had freespire on it. If that’s the case then you will have to delete the partitions on the linspire HD and reformat it and install your OS of choice. If you are trying to install the linspire drive as an additional (or slave) hard drive then it sounds like your jumpers are set wrong and your pc is trying to boot to the linspire drive as the primary drive and the windows drive as the slave. Take a look at the jumpers on the hard drive and make sure they are set with the windows as the primary and the linspire as the slave drive… then grub shouldn’t give you any grief… keep in mind linspire probably uses ext2/ext3 and not ntfs like windows does, so if you want to see and store data on that hard drive that linspire was on you will need to format it. Either ntfs or fat32 will be just fine if you are going to use it with windows.
