Windows XP

[copland]

Anyone know the XP equivalent of "fdisk /mbr"?

I've removed the Linux partitions on my PC, but can't get rid of the boot loader!

Thanks.

[Sandy]

You don't have a win98 disk?

put in your cd-rom, change in bios setting boot from cd-rom, and do fdisk

[copland]

No I don't. XP was already installed, and I've got a back up disk.

I've got an old win95 boot disk lying round somewhere, but XP uses a different filesystem to DOS, if I do fdisk under dos, and it fucks the disk up (1,024 cylinder limit etc.), that fucks me up... Big time!

[AzteK]

heh you're not suppose to use fdisk with windows XP and windows 2000

try f8 when booting up and an option should be there in the recovery counsole if I'm not wrong.

havn't tried it with XP yet - so give it a shot.

[AzteK]

check this out

right click on your "tool bar"
choose "properties"
click on the "Start Menu" tab
click "customize"
check "display administrative tools"
click "ok"
click "ok"
go to your "start menu"
go to "administrative tools"
open "computer managment"
click on "disk managment" on your left side of the counsole
click "Disk Managment" on your right side of the counsole
"right click" and the partition you want to delete
then delete desired partition

I hope that helps

[AzteK]

read this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID %3dKC.Q314058%26dialogID%3d2429451%26iterationID%3 d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c2155308

[AzteK]

I guess the command they recommend using is fixmbr and it should be used under the recovery console

[copland]

I've tried that. I can't get to the recovery console though. The only disks I've got are 'recovery disks'. Not set up disks. They delete everything on the hard disk, and return everything to their original settings (drivers etc.).

Looks like I'll just have to tolerate a stupid boot screen till microsoft pull their finger out of their arses.

[Sandy]

As long as the file system you use is fat32 it's no problem to use fdisk

if ntfs, im not sure

[ragnar]

win 98 se rulez :D