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khan
2 Dec 2003, 04:18am
quick question:
i, with a few deft keystrokes, managed to fark my mandrake installation. it still worked but i had messed up a couple of installs so i wanted to start from a clean slate. no problem, says i, i shall delete the partition and reinstall. little did i know that it left the bootloader behind which boots up every time forcing me to manually select windows each time.

how do i get rid of the bootloader?

Thrax
2 Dec 2003, 04:24am
Use the windows recovery console:

Type:

Fixboot

and

Fixmbr

That'll clear it up to the default windows mbr.

kanezfan
2 Dec 2003, 04:24am
fdisk /mbr

get you a win98 bootdisk and do that.