if all else fails and you lost your LILO, you can boot from the installation CD and restore your LILO David On Sunday 22 July 2001 02:20pm, Alex wrote:

Format <drive letter> /mbr should the trick or could use low level format to zero all data on it

Alex

scc wrote:

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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.

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Hi. Thanks for the advice. Couldn't I install windows and then boot the existing linux system from the cd-rom and then install lilo back in the mbr? Thanks, Steve. On Sunday 22 July 2001 21:22, you wrote:

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.