Removing LILO and mandrake on a win2K system

[phry26]

Recommendations people? I was planning to fdisk /mbr and then use partion magic to just kill the linux partion. Too simple?

 

[obenton]

I noticed an option, the other day, in Mandrake control center, to remove LILO and restore the w2k boot. Also, I've removed Linux partitions with w2k Disk Management. Fdisk/mbr will not restore w2k boot. You'd either do a repair install or "inspect boot files", or use Recovery Console fixboot. I've avoided those problems by putting LILO on a floppy when I install Mandrake, not disturbing the w2k boot..

 

[Derango]

a fdisk /mbr should restore the boot. what that does is put code in the MBR so that it will point it to the active boot partition, which should be the windows partition. this partition has the nt boot loder installed on it. That's what loads windows. It worked fine for me whenever I've needed to do it.

Microsoft actualy does this the correct way. Instead of putting code in the MBR to boot the OS, it puts the code on the partition that the OS is on, and then points the MBR to that partition. Thats how things should be done. Its technically safer.

 

[phry26]

THanks guys, I think I will go with derango, no offense obenton. Besides its easier and I am lazy.

EDIT:: Fdisk should be accessible through cmd right?

 

[spamsk8r]

You're gonna have to either use a Win98 boot disk with fdisk or boot directly from the win9x cd, because Win2k doesn't support fdisk/mbr

 

[obenton]

No offense taken. I'm much too old for that kind of silliness. Let us know how it works.