From: h9090166@hkuxb.hku.hk (Chan Lap Wah Samson) Subject: Re: Removing Linux Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 17:39:10 GMT
ganderson@clark.net (Gary Anderson) writes:
: : Dear Whoever,
: : I'm am tring to remove linux off my system. I formated my drive, and
: : used FDISK to remove the partition. And even after all that, when I boot my
: : machine it still says, "Uncompressing Linux" Does anyone know why? Does
: : anyone know how to completely remove linux off my system? If so PLEASE send
: : e-mail back to me,.. since my school is to cheep to get usenet. Anyway
: : Thank You,
:
: : Brian
:
: Brian, if you're trying to go back to dos, try the following:
: 1.) Boot up from a DOS system diskette.
: 2.) Do a 'format c: /MBR' to put a new master boot record in the boot sector.
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That's suppose to be FDISK /MBR, for MessyDOS 5.0 or up only.
Sams