nexionly Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 I have Mandrake installed on a partition of my windows drive, how do I unistall the boot loader so it will just boot into windows. so I can then simply format that partiton and rejoin it with the windows one with partition magic...?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 fdisk /mbr will restore the XP one, then just delete the mandrake partitions :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 or run /sbin/lilo -u I will uninstall lilo and restore the windows boot loader. Then just delete the linux partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 topic title corrected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathamon Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 just login as root and do: mv -rf / /dev/null it wont be very helpful but it sure is fun :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuarterSwede Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 fdisk /mbr will restore the XP one, then just delete the mandrake partitions :p Where can I find fdisk for XP? Or can I just use the recovery console on the XP cd and use the command FIXMBR? I would login as root and type /sbin/lilo -u if I could in linux but it doesn't seem to want to let me log off. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamsINdigital Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 wut i did was delete the partitions in Partition Magic 8, and then restored the windows bootloader by using the 1st mandrake cd. if u look around in the options of the cd, it will let u restore the windows bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuarterSwede Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 Thanks, I will have to try that. Although I won't delete the mandrake partition yet, just look at the mandrake cd to see what you are talking about. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 to delete the partitions use diskpart, also you can use fdisk /mbr, and yes use all this in recovery console Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuarterSwede Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 to delete the partitions use diskpart, also you can use fdisk /mbr, and yes use all this in recovery console I tried using fdisk /mbr in the recovery console but it wouldn't recognize the command. I have partition magic so I don't need to use diskpart (thanks for the info though). Thank you so much LilBlueDawg, I did what you said and it worked like a charm. For anyone who has tried everything and nothing worked try this: Boot into the 1st Mandrake cd -> press F1 for other options -> type rescue and then press enter -> select restore windows boot loader -> reboot. That's it! ***ps. This is for Mandrake 9.0 (Don't know if it works exactly this way on other versions).*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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