On Tuesday 11 November 2003 05:21 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >I have two doubts here: > >1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP�s prompt, but > >the program doesn�t exist... > >2) what is MBR? > > > >thanks > > > >Thigao > > The fdisk/mbr command is a DOS switch command and it removes lilo from > your MBR, master boot register , which is a small secret partition at > the very beginning of every hard drive. > > If you have XP there is a way to do it from an XP console but I cannot > remember just now.
Boot the WinXP CD and go into the recovery console. From there, issue the command "fixmbr" and hit enter. Confirm overwriting the mbr and no more lilo. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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