On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went and (very > regretfully) removed Debian from my dual-boot Sony Vaio. Deleting the OS > itself was easy enough -- I just used Partition Magic to delete the > partitions and reformat them as NTFS partitions that I can use to store > Windows files and data. (The reason I did this was because there wasn't > enough space on this laptop for all of the Windows programs I wanted, and > I already have three -- soon to be four -- Linux boxes in the house; I can > live with one full Windows computer.) > > The problem is that LILO is still lurking on the computer; whenever I boot > up the computer, it still offers me a choice whether to boot Windows or > Linux. Is there a way to delete LILO so that I can simply boot right into > Windows that won't require reinstalling WinXP?
Yes. You can run windows' fdisk with the option "/mbr". That will reinstall the boot partition to point only to windows. > > Sl�inte, > Richard S. Crawford > > http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview > AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com > "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is > invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exup�ry > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dooglio.net GPG Fingerprint : FE6A 6A57 2B95 7594 E534 BFEE 45F1 9E5E F30A 8A27 MIT.edu recv-key: C55B91D4 GPG Public key : http://www.dooglio.net/dooglio.asc
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