From: klaus@enuxva.eas.asu.edu (Todd C. Klaus) Subject: Re: Reinstalling MS-DOS Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 18:53:01 GMT
>
> I would guess that you installed LILO or some other Linux loader as
> the Master Boot Program in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of that drive.
> Now that MBR tries to load the rest of the boot loader from some
> preset place on what used to be the Linux partition and fails.
>
> If you have Norton Utilities, that may be the easiest way to fix it.
> Look under ``Master Boot Program'' in the index of the Disk Explorer
> manual that comes with Norton. For version 6.0, pages 3-39 through
> 3-43 has a detailed description of how to read this record off a hard
> drive on a working computer and put it on yours.
>
You could also just do:
fdisk /mbr
This should create a new master boot record...
tk