fdisk /mbr - GoFuckYourself.com

06-14-2002, 03:12 AM

For those of you who are familiar with what this does, I got a question for ya:

I'm in a big dilemma right now: I used to have two hdds, one with WinXP, one with Linux, where hda1 had LILO installed, in order for me to dual boot.

I had to remove the second harddrive because I formatted it and put Win2k on it (for the girlfriend). Each time I boot off the WinXP harddrive, LILO can't find the kernel. Doh - it's not there.

So I tried to fdisk/mbr off a Win98SE CD, but it told me that the "Master Boot Record could not be updated" .... Bad news, I can't even clean my MBR out.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do this ? All I need to do is getting rid of LILO ... and NO, format c: ain't an option, new partitions aren't an option either.

Thanks !

06-14-2002, 03:35 AM

anyother DOS-based tools to clean the MBR perhaps ?

FuqALot · 06-14-2002, 03:38 AM

Maybe try booting with a dos floppy disk, then copy fdisk to the harddrive and run it from there, instead of from the cdrom drive.

JFPdude · 06-14-2002, 06:32 AM

I have had this problem in the past ... go to the webpage for the hard disk manufacturer and you will find a tool there called disk manager it's made by ontrack it will wipe the hard drive for you and make it usable. If you don;t want to wipe the hard drive it has a tool for just cleaning the master boot record.

06-14-2002, 03:12 AM	#1
X37375787 Guest Posts: n/a	fdisk /mbr For those of you who are familiar with what this does, I got a question for ya: I'm in a big dilemma right now: I used to have two hdds, one with WinXP, one with Linux, where hda1 had LILO installed, in order for me to dual boot. I had to remove the second harddrive because I formatted it and put Win2k on it (for the girlfriend). Each time I boot off the WinXP harddrive, LILO can't find the kernel. Doh - it's not there. So I tried to fdisk/mbr off a Win98SE CD, but it told me that the "Master Boot Record could not be updated" .... Bad news, I can't even clean my MBR out. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do this ? All I need to do is getting rid of LILO ... and NO, format c: ain't an option, new partitions aren't an option either. Thanks !

06-14-2002, 03:35 AM	#2
X37375787 Guest Posts: n/a	anyother DOS-based tools to clean the MBR perhaps ?

06-14-2002, 03:38 AM	#3
FuqALot Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Malibu Posts: 3,817	Maybe try booting with a dos floppy disk, then copy fdisk to the harddrive and run it from there, instead of from the cdrom drive.

06-14-2002, 06:32 AM	#4
JFPdude Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Mountains of Western North Carolina. Posts: 4,027	I have had this problem in the past ... go to the webpage for the hard disk manufacturer and you will find a tool there called disk manager it's made by ontrack it will wipe the hard drive for you and make it usable. If you don;t want to wipe the hard drive it has a tool for just cleaning the master boot record.