I hope someone can help me. I have XP installed on one hard drive and Linux Redhat8.0 installed on a second hard drive. I would like to ged rid of Linux and the dual boot. I've been to the Boot.ini file, but no second line for the Linux appears. Your help is appreciated, thank you.

Just boot with a bootable floppy or Bootable Cd on Dos Prompt: use command: fdisk /mbr it will rebuild your master boot record and you will get rid of Linux boot loader now format the linux partation. It is the easiest method i have used yet.

Wow... That's rough man.... Your going to tell him to erase his MBR and everything will be o.k? Geeeshhhh.... Hope he didn't do it already.... I think you left out a key part in telling him to RESTORE his windows MBR from a windows boot disk..... fdisk /mbr will just wipe you MBR and then you can't do squat.... How is formatting your Linux partition going to recreate your MBR? ouch.... I guess a linux forum isn't the right place to come to in order to go back to windows, but that is cold....

Joe. This method works fine it will just recreate the master boot record and no problem will be there with the partation or any thing other.

fdisk /mbr from a windows boot disk does indeed replace the the MBR and does indeed make the system bootable to the windows OS and does indeed However, I I have only done this with a 9x type system and with the matching 9x fdisk. XP may not work since a 9x systems mbr starts a sysinit rountine that looks for io.sys where as an nt flavor starts looking for ntldr.

Hmmm... Good to know I guess...... I don't use 98 but for games and when I do use a dos disk for utilities, it's a generic boot disk I got off of bootdisk.com. When I fdisk /mbr it does exactally what I want it to do..... Erase the mbr and nothing else... You can try booting up but it will say "can't find an OS".... Another thing I hate about windows... It's always trying to do stuff on it's own... Why should it restore the mbr unless you tell it to.... Hmmpphhh...

One method I do know of to fix this with out using fdisk at all and potentially erasing your MBR without rebuilding it is to boot off you XP cd goto the recovery console and type FIXMBR that should take out the boot loader Linux put in. I wouldn't take my chances with a Win9x fdisk program especially if I had NTFS partitions on the disk.