remove linux, and then install Windows XP

[Tom Buskey]

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>
> One Google answer suggested that I can use "fdisk /mbr" to wipe the boot
> record clean, but in rescue mode of Fedora Core 5, this (/mbr) seemed an
> invalid option.
>
> Now, what should I do?


I can think of 3 options to wipe the MBR:

1) Boot from the XP CD into umm recover mode?  F8?  You get to a prompt and
can run fdisk /mbr

2) If you have a DOS boot floppy, you can run fdisk /mbr on that.
freedos.com (.org?) should have some downloadable floppy images that could
be used.

3) I think on the linux rescue you can also do something like:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=2048 count=1

You may have to up the count.



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