If you want to erase the mbr try using an old DOS 6.2 install disk. Boot it and use the command fdisk /mbr that should do the trick.
On Star Date Saturday 01 November 2003 11:11 am, James Sparenberg sent this sub-space message. > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi all > > Run up against winxp again, I'm sure they are playing foul. > > My friend recently had his PC stolen after all the hard work getting > > everything sorted. > > So he has his new machine 2.2GHz Athlon and 2 40 GB drives., both > > formated NTFS with winXP. > > He wants one with winxp on it and 1 with linux. > > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to > > get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1. > > So disconnect the first HD and swap over the cables so the second HD > > looks like the only drive.... same again :(( > > load a dos floppy with fdisk on it and delete the primary partition. > > try yo install MDK9.2 and 9.1 and 8.2 ....same damn thing with interupt > > failure and protection. > > swap the HD over to second IDE and disable primary IDE in the bios so > > now looking at INT 15.....same B**DDy thing !!!!!. > > > > > > put the original primary HD back in boot up in WinXP and guess what > > second HD shown as 40 GB NTFS. > > > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after > > winxp has been on a HD.. > > > > >From what I've seen its on different MOBOs different size HDs.. > > > > So what happens to the newbie who gets a bit fed up with gates and buys > > a MDK package, ? > > a system that wont load is disastrous. > > > > > > any ideas how I can get that crap off the mbr so I can load mdk 9.2 ???. > > I also think Mandrake needs to combat this .. > > > > > > Richard > > Have you tried booting from a morphix or knoppix bootable disk. Then > reformatting / setting things up? > > James
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