As far as I remember the comand is "fdisk/mbr" without entering fdisk, other
readers please corect me if I'm wrong.  Would have thought that Win rewrote
the MBR during installation? I have often read about peaple not being able
to access Linux after reinstalling Win.

Paul Ryan
Germany

>Date:    Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:01:00 +1000
>From:    RJT <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Problem Installing Win98 Revisited

>Hi,
  >  Firstly thankyou to those who responded to my query.  Your help is =
>always appreciated.  I tried a number of options including using =
>Maxblast (its a maxtor hdd) but nothing worked.  Then I got smart and =
>asked a 15 year old kid.  He said to:=20
>fdisk-delete all partitions
>esc to fdisk- type /mbr (this resets the master boot record)
>enter
>restart
>fdisk-create partitions
>format and go for it. It worked!

>He had the same problem and explained that Linux installs LILO a boot =
>manager and if you don't get rid of it Win won't load.  So there you =
>are. If all else fails find a kid between 10 and 16-they know =
>everything! LOLOL =20
>Thanks again
>Rick Thornton

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