Hi, fdisk /mbr used from a DOS boot floppy should do the trick. Cheers. Tim -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Bear in SFO Sent: 02 October 2002 06:02 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: uninstalling slackware You might have to zero fill your hard drive - well, at least the MBR There is a way you can clean the MBR with the DOS FDISK command but not sure how good that works... --David At 09:26 PM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hello from brookston minnesota. I unstalled slackware8.1 and now when I try to reinstall it I get a message telling me that I am parttition for linux when I am not. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20021002/30c4811b/attachment.html>