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Old 11-19-2002
Ok if you use fdisk /mbr as stated in some of the above posts then YES it will WIPE your master boot record. Then after running the fdisk /mbr then you reboot your computer it'll then load into windows 2000. From there go into the disk admin tools and then delete the partitions with Linux on then.

I've never know the fdisk /mbr to make it never to be able to boot a system after-wards if it has Windows and Linux on them. All it'll do it delete the master boot record (well reset it anyway). Thus leaving Linux out of the picture and windows then well boot the next time you reboot.

There should be no problems with it. The reason I say no problems is because anything can happen when working on computers! I've never had a problem with using fdisk /mbr and never heard of anyone having problems with it so far.

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fdisk

FDISK(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  FDISK(8)

NAME

       fdisk - partition a hard disk [IBM]

SYNOPSIS

       fdisk [-hm] [-sn] [file]

OPTIONS

       -h     Number of disk heads is m

       -s     Number of sectors per track is n

EXAMPLES

       fdisk /dev/hd0	   # Examine disk partitions

       fdisk -h9 /dev/hd0  # Examine disk with 9 heads

DESCRIPTION

       When  fdisk  starts  up,  it reads in the partition table and displays it.  It then presents a menu to allow the user to modify partitions,
       store the partition table on a file, or load it from a file.  Partitions can be marked as MINIX, DOS or other, as well as  active  or  not.
       Using fdisk is self-explanatory.  However, be aware that repartitioning a disk will cause information on it to be lost.	Rebooting the sys-
       tem immediately is mandatory after changing partition sizes and parameters.  MINIX, XENIX, PC-IX, and MS-DOS all have  different  partition
       numbering schemes.  Thus when using multiple systems on the same disk, be careful.

       Note that MINIX, unlike MS-DOS , cannot access the last sector in a partition with an odd number of sectors.  The reason that odd partition
       sizes do not cause a problem with MS-DOS is that MS-DOS allocates disk space in units of 512-byte sectors, whereas MINIX  uses  1K  blocks.
       Fdisk has a variety of other features that can be seen by typing h.

       Fdisk normally knows the geometry of the device by asking the driver.  You can use the -h and -s options to override the numbers found.

SEE ALSO

       part(8).

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