screwed computer

[manodivx]

i was uninstalling linux from my comp and when i went to boot up my other os....xp...i got a blue screen. Memory dump....then memory dump completed...and a bunch of other shit...anyway i tried taking the first hd which is now cleared without an os...and i went to try and parition it...and it wouldnt let me....i was told it was a non dos parition so i went to the delete non dos partition option in fdisk...and i got this error no fixed drives present...and i went to make the drive fixed and it wouldnt let me...it says all drives already fixed...so i tried other deleting options like primary dos...and ext dos and all others but none worked...why is it that this hd is all messed up...any help is welcomed

[dar1us]

Grab a boot disk off the internet (www.bootdisks.com ?) and ideally, the win95b one (works well).

Boot it:)

Type FDISK /mbr and hopefully, it will sort out your Primary Partition where ever it may be as the boot device, you may need to reinstall windows again or something like that, but hopefully, things may start working properly again.

Hope it works, reminds me of when I tried to get rid of linux and that bloody LILO just WOULDN'T go, i fdisked' and formatted my drives to hell and back though whenever i booted, I got LILO or my screen looked like the coding of the matrik, a massive flow of 1's and 0's and I searcehd the net and found how to re-appy the MasterBootCode. then, TADA.

Or have I totally missed the problem?

Thats enough of my stories (gripping wasn't it, maybe I sould be a writer and write a book called Harry pEtter and make a billion?)


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[rudeboymcc]

i had the same problem with lilo. turns out the boot cd that comes with it has an option to remove lilo and return to the windows boot screen.

[dar1us]

Still, a boot CD would still mean that you are playing around with linux when you can do the same with that MBR re-writer. If you get the IBM Hard Disk software (works on most hard-drives but the Seagate is better) you can get that to do many things including re-writing the code.

Bottom Line and Morale of the Story is:
dont bother messing around with things that you dont really understand, I tried Linux (Red Hat enigma and Mandrake 6,7,8,9 and didn't like any of them. Nothing that I did really was aided by Linux and Win2k SP2 (onwards) was stable enough.