Re: mbr & nt4

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From: Greg Crutcher
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:00

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I think you have to do a fdisk /mbr to remove lilo from the master boot
record. If you have linux boot floppies with fdisk you might give it a try.



Mauro Poletto wrote in message <86bq6d$3eb$1@lure.pipex.net>...
>Some time ago I installed linux on my machine. A while later I removed it
>from the hard disk and I re-formatted the hard drive, I tried to install
>NT4, but when the system re-boots after the 1st phase, lilo boots instead
>and I can't continue with the installation of NT.
>I tried to boot from a dos floppy and try to transfer the system files but
>nothing.
>Is there a way to remove lilo from the master boot record so that I can
>install any operation system again? It seems to me that the hard disk is
>unsuable now.
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Mauro
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