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I Just Installed Linux-Mandrake 8.0. I just wanted to play around with it and had my fun and uninstalled it..well basically formated...i had to go into fdisk and repartion it into DOS and i did that all fine..Mandrake is gone and i got my hard drive back..BUT the problem i'm having is everytime i boot up now the thing brings up the boot manager i don't know which one it is..it just gives me the options to boot in linux or windows..Well my question is how do i get rid of that and have it back to normal to where window boots back up with no boot screen. PLEASE i have been having trouble with it..i deleted my autoexect.bat config.sys and reloaded my system files but nothen..where is it hiding? please someone help thanks!!!
The boot manager would be installed to the MBR (Master Boot Record). This is in the first sector of the first HD, and I think you can delete the MBR, but not sure how you would get windows to re-install its MBR (apart from re-installing win98 or win95).
Actually if you fdisk the MBR, the next time you boot with Windows, it will automatically write to the MBR, so you don't necessarily need to reinstall windows.
Trickykid, if the MBR is wiped using fdisk then how does windows know to put in back in? I'm not questioning (cus I have never done it so I don't know!), but just wanted to know for future reference.
You know, I was pondering the same thing yesterday, never dawned on me until then on how Windows knows when to rewrite to the MBR, my guess is that if it was just wiped out and Windows detects that there is nothing there, then it writes to the MBR. But really I am unsure, all I know is if you do fdisk it and then boot into Windows, its all good if your going to keep booting into Windows.
Man u got a problem, but do this and u will be back to using windows without the LILO prompt..
goto DOS mode and do a :
fdisk /mbr ; this will remove LILO from the mbr and return to normal windows boot. Pls email me at praveenkn@firstlinux.net if u get this solution working !!
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