Re: Need Help with BOOT SECTOR Problem!

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From: yahright
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <01bd0594$34c0ef40$2709efcf@Ao3.comcat.com>, ben@yahoo.com says...
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>I installed Lilo on my boot sector to prompt me to start in DOS or Linux at
>start-up.  But when I select DOS it says its starting it but it doesn't. 
>I've fdisked the drive and removed all sectors and formatted because now I
>feel its best to run Lilo from a boot disk.  So I've re-installed DOS now
>but Lilo is still there on the boot sector.  What should I do?  What can I
>do?
>


in dos mode, depending on the one you have, with Windows 95, DOS 7. What you 
have to do is load DOS and run fdisk like this "fdisk /MBR" after that type sys 
 C: at prompt and this will fix it .

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