removing linux and lilo from 2nd drive in a dual boot

[breeze]

HI,
I need to undo a dual boot setup to free up a hard drive for another system...I have win95B on the C drive ( I wish to keep this drive and OS in this machine) and Linux on the another hard drive...I am using lilo at bootup. I need to remove linux from the 2nd hard drive to have it useable for windows. I also need to take out lilo too..
Can I do this without messing up my C drive? Someone mentioned running fdisk/mbr but I couldnt get back the person to ask if it is run from A:> and will it messup my C drive?.....
Thanks,
Breeze

 

[Louie1961]

I know there is a command from within linux to do what you are asking, but I can't remember what it is. I suggest doing a search at WWW.redhat.com They have a search tool that will search through all of their online product documentation. If you search on something like "removing LILO" it will come up with basic commands which aren't specific to their distro. I have done this in the past, and it will not impact your win 9X installation. Once you do that, you will need to run Fdisk to remove the linux partition from your second hard drive, then add a primary dos partition, and reformat. You can do all of that with something like partition magic as well.

Good luck

 

[Locutus of Board]

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[breeze]

Thanks for the informantion and the link to the Linux site. I tried it first with fdisk from Dos....you were right wouldnt work. I followed the directions in the link and was able to take out my linux partitions. I fdisked with dos and /mbr ...now my hard drive is ready for windows.
Thanks for all the help!
Breeze