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

**Drezliok** · 07-15-2004, 07:10 AM

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.

**Drezliok** · 07-16-2004, 05:09 AM

Does anyone know?

**eco2geek** · 07-16-2004, 06:00 AM

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

**shah** · 07-19-2004, 04:08 PM

fdisk /mbr

**Drezliok** · 07-19-2004, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by shah

fdisk /mbr

I would lose my XP if I did that, anyways I fixed it with out destroying anything.

**shah** · 07-20-2004, 11:00 AM

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.