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I have mandrake 8.2 installed and im going to remove it. The trouble is its installed LILO on the main volume. In Win98 your could do a fdisk /mbr to re-build the boot sector but im using XP and have no such option. Or do I? Will that still work?
Whats the best way to go about removal of LILO from the main volume before i wipe mandrake off the disk.
Cheers.
Booting with a W98 startup disk and fdsik /mbr still would work, it would definately get rid of LILO but it would also get rid of boot.ini
I would still do it, but then you need to boot with XP CD and run recovery and fix boot to repair/replace boot.ini and other required files needed to boot XP.
Boot to the repair console from the cd. Chosse your instll (c:\windows) and at the prompt type in fixboot, or that failing fixmbr.
fdisk /mbr always did it for me
I've used fdisk /mbr to solve a similar Linux bootloader problem with Win98 straight from DOS mode.
Cheers all. Was worth checking :)
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Just for clarification, If fdisk /mbr doesnt work (with other distros, I used this on Redmond Linux, and know it to be true) you must change the active partition to the Linux partition, then run fdisk /mbr before it will work.
*Edited by Sowulo*'s sugestion will work too, but you know there is always more than one way to get anything doen with a computer :D