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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
