[juneau-lug] Re: Hard Drive Switch from Linux to Dos
- From: Phil Witt <phillipw@xxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 17:35:25 -0900
I'm thinking this might me a
fdisk /mbr
kind of thing. I'm guessing lilo is coming up?
bdk wrote:
> try
> A:\>format c: /s
>
> The /s should make it bootable (transfer system files over), might be worth
> a try even if 'sys c:' doesn't work. Also toss it in a win9x box and format
> it that way.
>
> At 16:16 11/07/01 -0900, you wrote:
>
> >I have a computer that once contained linux on the hard drive. I have a
> >temporary need to switch this back to DOS. I changed the partitions to
> >satisfy DOS and I reformatted the hard drive to prepare to accept DOS.
> >Installed DOS. When I boot from the hard drive, it attempts to load linux
> >rather than dos. I did the sys.com thing to but somehow the linux loaded is
> >still present and appears to supercede the DOS loader.
> >
> >What's the trick to make linux disappear?
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >
> >
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