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16-Dec-2000, 03:46 AM #1
i installed linux for the network card and instead i got the OS i think. anyways it wont start up windows and i tried rebooting from the start up disk but it wont reformat the disk drive.

can you help? its very urgent
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16-Dec-2000, 08:49 PM #2
If you want to get rid of Linux, you will need to delete the partitions. Run FDISK and delete all partitions that it doesn't recognise, that wipes linux of you system.
Also, if you get a lilo prompt at startup, you can get rid of that by typing fdisk /mbr.
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