[juneau-lug] Re: Hard Drive Switch from Linux to Dos

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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