OK, this sound like an easy question for you guys. I need to go back to M$ for a couple of days and I had tried everything and can not have my old DOS partition. I've tried DR-DOS, Win95, Win98 and WinME. I boot from any of those OS and run the FDISK to delete all the partitions and create and set my DOS partition. That is not working at all, it keeps bringing me the linux partitions after restarting. I also tried booting from the installation CD (of any of the previous versions) and they told me they can not work with those partitions and I had already tried everything. I need to try something with linux now, but dont know how. I can use even SuSE 6.4, 7.0 or RD 6.2 Suggestion, please... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Couple options. You want to remove the linux partition and do a fresh install? from a windows boot disk fdisk remove non-dos partition from the suse cd get into the partitioning portion of the setup (within yast1 text version) Ive noticed a bug in the graphical version where yast2 wont let you -delete- partitions. use yast1 text based and delete the partitions accordingly then choose write partition table and reboot. If you have installed lilo on the mbr you need to run disk /mbr from a dos prompt to get rid of lilo we probably need more info of -exactly- what you want to do/install rob Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
OK, this sound like an easy question for you guys.
I need to go back to M$ for a couple of days and I had tried everything and can not have my old DOS partition.
I've tried DR-DOS, Win95, Win98 and WinME.
I boot from any of those OS and run the FDISK to delete all the partitions and create and set my DOS partition. That is not working at all, it keeps bringing me the linux partitions after restarting.
I also tried booting from the installation CD (of any of the previous versions) and they told me they can not work with those partitions and I had already tried everything.
I need to try something with linux now, but dont know how. I can use even SuSE 6.4, 7.0 or RD 6.2
Suggestion, please...
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I tried the /mbr option and I am getting the
following message: "ERROR WRITING FIXED DISK. THE
MASTER BOOT CODE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED."
????
--- dizzy73
Couple options. You want to remove the linux partition and do a fresh install?
from a windows boot disk fdisk remove non-dos partition
from the suse cd get into the partitioning portion of the setup (within yast1 text version) Ive noticed a bug in the graphical version where yast2 wont let you -delete- partitions. use yast1 text based and delete the partitions accordingly then choose write partition table and reboot.
If you have installed lilo on the mbr you need to run disk /mbr from a dos prompt to get rid of lilo
we probably need more info of -exactly- what you want to do/install
rob
Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
OK, this sound like an easy question for you guys.
I need to go back to M$ for a couple of days and I had tried everything and can not have my old DOS partition.
I've tried DR-DOS, Win95, Win98 and WinME.
I boot from any of those OS and run the FDISK to delete all the partitions and create and set my DOS partition. That is not working at all, it keeps bringing me the linux partitions after restarting.
I also tried booting from the installation CD (of any of the previous versions) and they told me they can not work with those partitions and I had already tried everything.
I need to try something with linux now, but dont know how. I can use even SuSE 6.4, 7.0 or RD 6.2
Suggestion, please...
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Please explain how you're doing this? you should boot with a win boot disk while at an A:\ prompt type fdisk /mbr that will remove lilo from the master boot record there should not be any errors doing that However that will not remove the linux partitions for that you need to fdisk > remove non dos partitions or the method suggested using the Linux cd to remove the linux partitions and then have the cd rewrite the partitons rob Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
I tried the /mbr option and I am getting the following message: "ERROR WRITING FIXED DISK. THE MASTER BOOT CODE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED."
????
--- dizzy73
wrote: Couple options. You want to remove the linux partition and do a fresh install?
from a windows boot disk fdisk remove non-dos partition
from the suse cd get into the partitioning portion of the setup (within yast1 text version) Ive noticed a bug in the graphical version where yast2 wont let you -delete- partitions. use yast1 text based and delete the partitions accordingly then choose write partition table and reboot.
If you have installed lilo on the mbr you need to run disk /mbr from a dos prompt to get rid of lilo
we probably need more info of -exactly- what you want to do/install
rob
Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
OK, this sound like an easy question for you guys.
I need to go back to M$ for a couple of days and I had tried everything and can not have my old DOS partition.
I've tried DR-DOS, Win95, Win98 and WinME.
I boot from any of those OS and run the FDISK to delete all the partitions and create and set my DOS partition. That is not working at all, it keeps bringing me the linux partitions after restarting.
I also tried booting from the installation CD (of any of the previous versions) and they told me they can not work with those partitions and I had already tried everything.
I need to try something with linux now, but dont know how. I can use even SuSE 6.4, 7.0 or RD 6.2
Suggestion, please...
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On Sunday 29 April 2001 04:03, you wrote:
OK, this sound like an easy question for you guys.
I need to go back to M$ for a couple of days and I had tried everything and can not have my old DOS partition.
I've tried DR-DOS, Win95, Win98 and WinME.
I boot from any of those OS and run the FDISK to delete all the partitions and create and set my DOS partition. That is not working at all, it keeps bringing me the linux partitions after restarting.
Did you clean out the mbr? Try running fdisk /mbr to reset it, and all should be well. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 7.1, Kernel 2.4.2 KDE2.1.1 For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org
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