hi, i have vector installed on my desktop, it dual boots with windows, lilo is installed in mbr, so, now i want to uninstall vector and leave only windows, i tried searching google but could not get a clear answer on what to do can anyone help

Tell us more about your Partitioning setup.

That could help us give you a detailed solution.

hda is my drive with my windows partition
hdb is my drive with my linux partition
mbr is where lilo was written

MBR of which Drive?

Ok. Tell me the output of

(Run these commands as root.)

hda my windows drive

You could simply use software like Partition Magic to delete your Linux partitions and expand your Windows partition to fill the hard drive. Then boot off of a Windows rescue disk and run fixmbr to wipe LILO off the MBR and replace it with the Windows boot loader. I'd suggest backing-up your Windows first in case something goes wrong during the partition resizing.

Edit: oops, I see Linux is on a separate drive. In that case you could just use the fixmbr technique to restore the MBR and format the drive to NTFS from Windows, making the drive also a Windows partition. Or you couyld leave it as is in case you want to try Linux again.

ok thanks for the info, but i dont have a xp disk, i only have a restore dvd, it doesnt load like the xp cd, its an emachines restore cd, is there any other way i can get to fixmbr