Hello, I HAVE 2 HARD DRIVES, ONE IS A 60 GIG.. THE OTHER IS A 6 GIG.. I INSTALLED WINDOWS ON THE 60 GIG AND MANDRAKE 8.0 LINUX ON THE 6 GIG.. IM TRYING TO UNINSTALL LINUX AND DELETE THE PARTITIONS AND FORMAT THE 6 GIG DRIVE.. AND KEEP WINDOWS.. MY BOOT SCREEN AT THIS MOMENT WHEN I BOOTUP IS A BLUE LOOKING MANDRAKE SCREEN ASKING ME IF I WANNA BOOT WINDOWS OR LINUX.. .. WHAT IM ASKING IS.. HOW DO I UNINSTALL MANDRAKE LINUX, DELETE THE PARTIONIONS AND FORMAT THE 6 GIG HARD DRIVE.. AND KEEP THE 60 GIG WINDOWS BOOTABLE.. WHEN I UNPLUG THE 6 GIG HARD DRIVE.. AND TRY TO BOOT UP JUST MY 60 GIG.. IT GIVES ME A BLACK SCREEN WITH c 70'S.. AND IT WONT BOOT WINDOWS.. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME.. ID APPRECIATE IT GREATLY.. THANK YOU, mAGIX

Lilo comes with a uninstall feature (man lilo for the syntax). when installing, it saves the MBR to a file (its called something like /boot/boot.0000). Uninstalling Lilo can write the bootsector back to the disk. To be safe, next fire up the Mandrake cd installer, get into fdisk, diskdruid or whatever disk-partitioning tool it uses and delete the Linux & Linux swap partitions. Write out the partition table. Now use dos/windoze fdisk/format or whatever disk-partitioning tool u normally use to create/format dos/fat partitions.

*if it doesnt work, fire up the windoze installer cd and let it look for windoze partitions to repair.
**dont shout. using ALL-CAPS is considered shouting, and not polite.

YMMV

Or you can try:

Put your Windows boot floppy in and boot to it.

At the prompt type fdisk /mbr

take the floppy out and reboot. It should now boot straight into windows.

If windows sees the 6Gig HDD in My computer you should be able to format it from there. If not

Put the boot floppy back in and reboot to it.

At the prompt type fdisk

follow the instructions and select the 6Gig HDD and delete all non dos partitions and format it.

That should give you back a total windows system.