Hi, i need to totaly clean my HD (including the mbr) because windows dosnt boot anymoore (resetting the mbr or formating the drive didnt help, but linux worked) i dont want any help fixing the windows problem because iv already ask and searched but nothing helped. I just wanna know how to reet the drive the way it was when i baught it. THX :-) There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die

Delete the partitions and you have a clean drive. Recreate the partitions and format. Go to bootdisk.com and download a windows 98 boot disk and boot to that disk and type in fdisk. Then you will find the delete parition options. May it be said when I die, He was a man of integrity.

"resetting the mbr" - how did you do this? fdisk /mbr? "or formating the drive didnt help" - doing that wiped all data from the drive, how'd you expect that would help boot into Windows? I think we need a better explanation of what your problem is/was & what you tried to do to fix it, then we can come up with a solution.

I got some problems booting windows after using SuSE linux 9.1, and i formated the disk and reinstalled only windows to see if it would work (as i said, it didnt), i tryed to reset the mbr using, fixboot and fixmbr, i tryed to use 'fdisk \mbr' but it made the comp freeze, noone of them helped so now i want to cleene the whole disk and reinstall windows and another linux distro. and to reset the whole disk and the mbr to what is was when i baught the drive must help (or?, :-S). thx for helping... There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die

Unless you absolutely know what you are doing, I would NOT! recommend dual booting Linux and windows on a single drive or it could turn out to be a recipe for disaster. If you need to wipe your drive including the master boot record, get a boot diskette and run fdisk /mbr from DOS. If you do not know how to run fdisk to delete and recreate partitions, you can download killdisk to completely scrub the drive. You can then reload XP and your other applications, once you get the above done. ____________________________ The greatest risk is not taking one

when iv used killdisk (i think il download it (can be handy)) what do i need to do next? do i need to configure somting or is it just install the OS. just wanna know i dont want to sit with a dead drive dont knowing what to do... There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die

Fdisk is the tough part, here's some help: http://fdisk.radified.com/ http://www.compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/index.html http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrscary/fdisk.htm http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/8/67.ASP Once you get the drive partitioned, then format it and do the windows install.