Hi, I am a newbie to Linux and I decided that it would be a great day to test it out on my machine. Well, it's f'd up now! I initially had Windows 98 on C, Win2k on D, and an E parition, and F was my CD Writer. I burned Mandrake 9.1 ISO and decied to install it. Now, I think I may have formatted my C, D and E. (I have no access to them. I can not boot to them.) When I stick a windows 98 bootdisk, it doesn't recognize any of the drives. I'd like to achive the following: I'd like to go back to Windows on this machine. I'll install Madrake on another Celeron 433. How do I uninstall Linux? (Keep in mind, that I have NO access to Windows or Dos on this machine. When it boots up, it goes directly to Mandrake.) Is there anyway to retrive my old info on my NTFS / Fat32 Partitions? Thanks in advance.

do u have a boot loader ? if yes .. for grub edit /boot/grub/grub.conf for lilo edit /boot/lilo.conf .. (I'm not sure for lilo) there u can add os for boot for windows use option chainloader +1 example file: #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-11) root (hd0,) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-11 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.18.11 title Windows XP rootnoverify(hd0,0) chainloader +1 edit (hdx,X) as per ur hard disk 1st harddisk = hd0 and 4 is the partition number

If when you boot from the windows boot disk, you can't find any drives, I'm affraid you might have deleted your windows' partitions... Try booting up with the windows boot disk and launch fdisk (just type fdisk at the command prompt). Take a look at the partition infomation and see if you still have any FAT or FAT32 partitions. If not, then you've probably deleted them by accident during the linux installation.

Boot from windows boot disk type fdisk /mbr This will delete your linux master boot record. If your windows is still there, it should boot up