I had a dual-boot system (Windows 2000, Linux). I had to reinstall the Wnidowses. 9x would have owerwritten the MBR, but not Win2k. W2k can do 2 things: - owerwrite the MBR wit it's loader, but preserving the "Linux"( e.g. "unidentified system on c:") among the boot options - keep Lilo intact. That happened on my comp. Yours, Ziga -----Original Message----- From: scc [mailto:fsanta@arrakis.es] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 8:35 AM To: SuSE Subject: [SLE] format windows disk after virus Hi Everyone. I have windows on hda the first hard disk and I have 7.2 on hdc, a second hard disk. windows has a virus and I'll have to fdisk and reformat it. Lilo is in MBR. Will windows overwrite this when I reinstall? Is there any other danger of messing up Linux? I can access the lilo screen with no problem and get into 7.2 at the moment. Thanks, Steve. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com