fdisk /mbr will do the trick. Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! ----- Original Message ----- From: Bear in SFO To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:01 AM 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/afb94ca5/attachment.html>