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Name: AcidAngelII
Date: February 27, 2002 at 12:35:23 Pacific
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I recently installed slackware 8.0 but i wish to reinstall it (somethings wernt installed correctly) but i have a few problems with xp. for some reason when i try to make boot floppys i always get an error. ive tryed dozends of disks downloaded new images and the rawrite utillity numerous times any ideas? also i need to know how to reset the mbr in windows xp (sence i have lilo and may want to get rid of it)



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Name: Mark
Date: February 27, 2002 at 14:20:59 Pacific
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Dont know about reinstalling Slackware. But the MBR could be reset using an undocumented feature of FDISK

type FDISK /MBR

Hope it helps


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Name: AcidAngelII
Date: February 27, 2002 at 14:28:01 Pacific
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nope that dosnt work FDISK isnt supported in windows xp it may work with a boot disk though.


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Name: oscar
Date: February 27, 2002 at 15:50:56 Pacific
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Boot from XP CD and go into recovery console.
There you nay execute fixmbr, fixboot etc.
Execute help for help about commands.


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