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Hard drive will not boot after Linux drive formatted

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Psycheman

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I've got a serious problem here - my computer will no longer boot. I have two Maxtor 40 gigs, primary running Win98 and secondary used to run Linux. After an odd, unrepairable problem occured, I took the liberty of using the MaxBlast software (I wasn't in an FDISK mood) and formatting that drive. After doing so, my LILO apparently got stuck in the MBR and will no longer even load to that! How can I fix this and format my MBR? I thought the command was (booting on floppy) "format /mbr" but that did not work. I really would appreciate any help I can get on this, thank you. Any questions, please ask.
 
fdisk /mbr from a DOS prompt. Use either a windows boot disk or boot directly into into DOS.

I think the problem that you are running into is that LILO was loaded on the secondary drive and when you formatted it you lost LILO. By running fdisk /mbr you delete the current MBR and it should be automatically replaced by windows when you reboot the computer. I know this works with no problem in Win2k because I ran into the same problem about a year ago.
 
Ahh, thank you very much, I feel a little down in the ego but at least it's fixed! I've had so much experience installing and running Linux, but not uninstalling (Who'd wanna? 😛) Anyway, thanks a lot!
 
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