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Removing Linux without disabling Win98 partition
Name: Bern Date: October 16, 2000 at 02:55:45 Pacific
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Dear All, I need some help here, I have two HD and have installed Linux on to the second HD with Win98 on the first HD. Therefore, when I boot, a screen with Linux and win98 is shown such that I can choose either OS to run. The main thing for me now is that I would like to unistall Linux from the 2nd HD and leaving Win98 to boot without the selection screen. Please advice as I tested removing linux by removing the second hd but the screen goes blank at boot... looking forward to your replies.... thanks a million...
Name: ralph Date: October 16, 2000 at 09:51:12 Pacific
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The quickest way is to boot to Windows and re-write the master boot record and remove your boot manager (lilo ?).
First, use fdisk to make sure your W98 partition is the active partition on that drive. Now, from a DOS prompt:
fdisk /mbr
This will re-write the master boot record on your first hard drive. Your drive should boot and you can then remove your second HDD or format it or whenever... Of course, without a linux boot disk, you may have problems getting your second drive to boot again :)
Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: matthew Date: October 16, 2000 at 11:38:09 Pacific
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You should be able to just run fdisk and set your win98 partition to active.
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Response Number 3
Name: Bern Date: October 17, 2000 at 00:09:20 Pacific
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Thanks for the advice Mathew and Ralph, I will try both....
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Response Number 4
Name: Dhimant Date: September 22, 2001 at 14:03:05 Pacific
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Hello,
I had installed Suse and would like to uninstall it as the video chipset is not supported, thus the result is distorted text. I have partition my hardrive as a dual boot for win 98 and Suse.
I need your assistance in removing the Suse OS without loosing data from WIN98
Summary: No need to removing hd from comp. make win98 setup disk. Boot on, then run fdisk, delete non dos partitions, then make dos partition (extended if u need).Reboot, format, and so on. If this won`t help,...
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