Re: How to clear everything?

[Denice <deatrich lcavsun1 epfl ch>]

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Charles Lonersam wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have a single SCSI 2Gig HD on a P90. I used to have RH LX installed in it
> but now I need to have it all WIPED out so that I can install Win98.
> 
> The problem is, I finally have the HD 'all' FDISKed, formatted, and the
> MSDOS6.22 is system tranferred to this C-drv, but somehow when boot the
> computer from C:, LILO would still pop up and then ... of course, it can't
> find anything (I mean the kernel and LX file and stuffs ... etc). It seems
> that there are some hidden files or even partition in this computer, which
> still belongs to LX. The only 'tools' I have here is RHLX 6.0 (the boot
> disk), Win95 boot disk (floppy and CD), and a DOS6.22 boot disk (fresh
> boot).
> 

Use on of the  dos/windows versions of fdisk.  So boot into the correct
version of dos for your version of fdisk, and run this command:

  fdisk /mbr

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