Kent West:
> Here's what I'd try:
> 1) Boot off a Win98 floppy that has the sys.com (or is it sys.exe?) and
> the fdisk.com (or is it fdisk.exe?) commands on it (or alternatively, you
> can run these commands from the hard drive).
> 2) Run "fdisk /mbr". This will "partition" the master boot recor
At 12:53 PM 2/12/1999 +1100, Stephen Lavelle wrote:
>Firstly thanks for all the help offered, but I am not much further. I would
>like to keep Linux but the person who will be using it can't handle it.
>Here's what I've done:
>(On a Toshiba T2110CS Satellite)
>With Linux still there!
>I used cfdisk
I've done this very procedure on numerous machines, numerous times; and it
has worked perfectly every time. The only think that I must add is that
often if you haven't run LILO you can still have to recreate the master boot
record. And when you're using a boot disk, it can sometimes recreate it on
By the sounds of things when you formatted the drive - you didn't install
the operating system.
In order to do this you either need the 'sys' command; or the 'format'
command.
If you have 'sys' run: sys a: c:
If you have 'format' (no copy of 'sys') run: format c: /s
That way it will transfer the Wi
Quoting Andrei Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Ok, this is what I had to do when I needed to free one of my disks for
> Windows.:
> 1. reinstate the mbr on that disk, if it has been changed.
> 2. cfdisk/fdisk to partition to fat16
> After this it SHOULD work, however, when I was doing it, I actually
First off, I know this sounds obvious, but make sure your BIOS settings
are letting you boot first from floppy, then HD, not from HD first,
which might cause this... Then, if you had LILO installed, try using:
fdisk [drive letter] /mbr
on your HD's master boot record. My fiance had a similar pr
> I have asked previously on this list how to go about removing Linux from a
> machine and reinstalling Windoze.
Sorry, you can't do this -- ever. ;-)
Did this machine have LILO installed on it? If so, boot from a DOS floppy
and run "fdisk /MBR" to rewrite the master boot record, fdisk, a
If you have a boot disk which contains FDISK and FORMAT. Simply boot using
it. Use FDISK to remove all the partitions, then reboot. Reformat the
partition using DOS FORMAT, then use the command FDISK /MBR to recreate your
MASTER BOOT RECORD using the standard MS-DOS MBR. This will allow the drive
t
Ok, this is what I had to do when I needed to free one of my disks for
Windows.:
1. reinstate the mbr on that disk, if it has been changed.
2. cfdisk/fdisk to partition to fat16
After this it SHOULD work, however, when I was doing it, I actually had to
reformat the disk.
Now, to the bootable disk.
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