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From: Thomas Ward <tward@bright.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Unloading Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:16:57 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202111915320.7357-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01c1b334$730ba9a0$9d2efea9@j7o5o8>

Hi, use fdisk. You can stick in your Windows dos bootdisk, type fdis, at 
the dos prompt, and then first delete any non-dos partitions, and then you 
should be ready to fdisk and create Windows partitions.
 On Mon, 11 Feb 
2002, Pete wrote:

> @echo off
> DEBUG <%0
> A 100
> INT 13
> 
> RAX
> 0301
> RBX
> 0200
> F 200 L 200 0
> RCX
> 0001
> RDX
> 0081
> P
> ;REPLACE LAST 0080 WITH  0081 IF
> ;YOU WANT TO CLEAR THE SECOND
> ;PHYSICAL HDD, 2 FOR THE THIRD,ETC.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rodney" <rodneylist@home.com>
> To: "Speakup List" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:46 AM
> Subject: Unloading Linux
> 
> 
> > Hi all.
> >  
> > I was having trouble installing Slackware Linux on a computer so I tried
> > it on my development hard drive.  I was going to reinstall Windows on it
> > anyway so I tested the Slackware install and all went well.  But now I
> > have to remove Linux and reinstall Windows 98 SE.
> >  
> > The problem is that even though I repartitioned the hard drive and
> > reformatted it with my windows startup disk, the LILO menu still
> > appears.
> >  
> > I assume the menu is written on the boot sector of the hard drive and my
> > reformatting does not erase it.
> >  
> > Can anyone tell me how to totally clear my hard drive so I can do a
> > fresh install of a different OS?
> >  
> > Rodney    
> > 
> > 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Rodney
 ` Saqib Shaikh
 ` Kirk Wood
   ` Rodney
 ` Terry Cudney
 ` Thomas Ward
 ` Mitchell
   ` Rodney
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Chris Peterson
     ` Mitchell
       ` Geoff Shang
         ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Thomas Ward
         ` Shaun Oliver
     ` Kirk Reiser
       ` Chris Peterson
         ` HTML email (was Unloading Linux) Kirk Wood
       ` Unloading Linux Amanda Lee
         ` Angelo Sonnesso
           ` Janina Sajka
 ` Pete
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Pete
   ` Kirk Wood
   ` Thomas Ward [this message]
     ` Pete

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