Re: Getting rid of Windows MBR

["anthony" <anthony mail genexchange com>]

Drew:

Just boot the system with a Win95/98 boot disk, then at the dos prompt type

fdisk /mbr

that will clear your MBR and you'll be able to load a new OS to the system.

Anthony




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Drew Hunt" <pinowudi yahoo com>
Reply-To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:24:27 -0700

>Hi all,
>
>I'm having problems mounting a vfat drive that was previously used with
>Win98.  I would like to access the data, but the kernel can't mount it at
>boot and it crashes LILO to LI<freeze>.  I think the disk has the Windows
>MBR set and that is causing the probs.  If I boot from a floppy, I have no
>probs mounting the drive as vfat.
>
>I remember someone talking about how to clear the Windows 95/98 MBR about
>two months ago, but I can't get access to the archive to search it.  Does
>anyone remember the command from the Win boot disk?
>
>Thanks,
>Drew
>pinowudi yahoo com
>
>
>
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