Unloading Linux

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After reading this same response, oh... quite a few times now, I have to
wonder if anyone reads their e-mail all the way through before responding to
it.  That is, after all, good practice on a list.  You read all of the
message posted to the list so the same thing doesn't get repeated ten times
over.  Of course, I'll never forget fdisk /mbr now...

Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@xxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Unloading Linux


> When at a clean dos prompt, do the following without the quotes.
> "fdisk /mbr". Hth.
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:46:54AM -0500, Rodney wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I was having trouble installing Slackware Linux on a computer so I tried
> > it on my development hard drive.  I was going to reinstall Windows on it
> > anyway so I tested the Slackware install and all went well.  But now I
> > have to remove Linux and reinstall Windows 98 SE.
> >
> > The problem is that even though I repartitioned the hard drive and
> > reformatted it with my windows startup disk, the LILO menu still
> > appears.
> >
> > I assume the menu is written on the boot sector of the hard drive and my
> > reformatting does not erase it.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to totally clear my hard drive so I can do a
> > fresh install of a different OS?
> >
> > Rodney
> >
> >
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