On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote:

There is a command that DOS users use, you might try it.

C:\> fdisk /mbr

replaces the Master Boot Record with a fresh copy.

I am not sure if NT has fdisk so you might try to boot with a good DOS floppy with the necessary utilities (fdisk.exe, command.com, etc.).

Either that or if you can boot linux you could use this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx bs=512 count=1( replace the x in /dev/hdx with whatever letter the drive is or /dev/sdx for scsi drives) that command should overwrite the first 512 bytes of the hard drive which is where the master boot record sits, then you should be able to make it bootable with whatever system you like.

Webdirekt Sysop writes:

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hi cracks, heres one for you. or maybe it's simple and I am stupid:

my board does not get along with lilo. how do I get rid of it? (not the board, because I've paid for it) I tried overinstalling nt, but it does not come up after the reboot, because lilo is still there. so how can i clean up the bootsector ? I formatted to kingdom-come already, but no avail of course.

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/sbin/lilo -u Thank you Russell On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Terry Eck wrote:

There must be a way of solving this problem without using DOS! Are there any GNU programs which will perform this function?

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