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Thread: I've lost the drive I installed on, how to remove lilo?

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    I've lost the drive I installed on, how to remove lilo?

    I lost the Hard Drive that I installed Knoppix to, I don't have a replacement so I need to remove the boot loader and restore it to defaul.

    My Windows drive[hda1/c:] is NTFS so I can't use my old method of booting with win98 start disk and typing "format mbr".

    I need to learn a new way.

    Thankyou very much.

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    Does anyone know?

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    If you have your Windows installation CD, you "should be able to" fix the MBR by following the instructions in this thread.

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    fdisk /mbr

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    Quote Originally Posted by shah
    fdisk /mbr
    I would lose my XP if I did that, anyways I fixed it with out destroying anything.

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    fdisk /mbr will not destroy your Xp. It only rebuild your master boot record and remove lilo or other program that resides on your master boot record.

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