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Old 07-18-2005
Major Help Urgently Needed!!!!
Right deleted Linux partition usig windows

then went to format c:\ but had to exit window now pc ONLY boots into GNU Grub.


Does anyone know how to format the hard drive now?????
Last edited by billett05; 07-18-2005 at 03:05 PM..
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Old 07-18-2005
Are you saying that u want to format the whole thing ans install windows on it?? a little confused .. can you be more clear
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Old 07-18-2005
Boot the machine into DOS mode, do not go into DOS from Windows. (I know you cant get into Windows but just thought I would reiterate this for those who stumble onto this in the future).

Anyway, from the DOS prompt, type fdisk /MBR. This is an undocumentated feature in DOS. For other undocumented features, see this link. fdisk /MBR will clear the master boot record. Once you've done this, you can drop you Windows CD back into your drive and do a fresh install.


Whoops. this assumes that you have DOS disks or have a way into DOS. Smilie
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Old 07-20-2005
If you don't have a DOS boot disk, you can also do this booting from an XP CD, going into the repair console, and typing FIXMBR and/or FIXBOOT.
 
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