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uninstalled Linux but can't boot up with Windows

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Name: Tony
Date: November 4, 2000 at 08:51:56 Pacific
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I can't boot windows after uninstalling Linux. The Linux boot: prompt comes up still and I when I type in dos it has dos errors.

What is going on?



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Name: shawn
Date: November 4, 2000 at 09:43:07 Pacific
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Boot up with the windows boot disk cd to c:/
and type "fdisk/mbr" without quotes that shoud repair the master boot record


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Name: jim
Date: November 4, 2000 at 13:58:05 Pacific
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Boot up with the Windows Boot Disk and type in "fdisk_/mbr" (without the quotation marks and the _ as a space.)


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