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06-Mar-2004, 11:54 AM #1
Unhappy Remove LILO
Hello,
My system has two hdd's 20GB+80GB(slave).Recently I had installed Mandrake Linux on my 80GB disk.But then I ran into some problems so I formateed and repartioned my 80 GB hdd to remove Linux.
But the LILO has noot gone.How can I remove it?
BTW,I already have a dual boot system(Win98SE(C:\)+WinXP(D:\)).
Thanks in advance
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06-Mar-2004, 02:13 PM #2
well, depends on where lilo is installed, if it is installed in the MBR, using "fdisk /mbr" would rewrite it to windows standards, removing LILO.. then all you would have to do is make sure that you edit your boot.ini file correctly to use winSE and XP..
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06-Mar-2004, 11:16 PM #3
Hello tnik,
I dont know where it was written.But I think it was written in the MBR.
BTW what do you mean when you say
"edit your boot.ini file correctly to use winSE and XP."
Could you please explain it?
Thanks in advance.
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07-Mar-2004, 12:01 AM #4
go to your boot.ini file in C:\

you'll see something like this

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /KERNEL=kernel1.exe

you'll have to modify it so that one points to your D:/ and one that points to the general c:\ one
thus you can hit f8 and decide if you wantto boot into xp or 2000
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17-Mar-2004, 05:21 AM #5
Thanks tsunam,
Did fdisk/mbr and that did it.
Thanks a lot
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