I installed Madrake 8.1 using the lnx4win option, letting the thing create a disk image on my FAT32 partition which it somehow opens up during boot and runs Linux. Now, I want to uninstall the thing, basically because during installation I choose the partition size to be 300MB and later found that that much space can't even fit all the Internet software. Anyway, I'm using Windows XP Pro, which does not support fdisk [the utility that some other threads refer when dealing with uninstallation.]

So how do I uninstall the boot menu [lilo] which unfortunately thinks that if I don't select anythin I'm happy to boot to Linux, which is not very good when u frequent the Windows Remote Desktop utility and have to remotely restart. Should I just delete the lnx4win folder [which contains the disk image file and some other linux files] or would that not remove the boot menu???

I need some good and quick suggestions...

You're supposed to run the uninstall.bat program in the lnx4win folder. I got that info from here.

Check out the readme.txt file. Scroll down to the bottom of the readme.txt page for the uninstall instructions.

If you don't have the uninstall.bat file, you can download it on the same page as the readme.txt file. You might also need to download the rm.exe file. It to is on the same page as readme.txt.

I tried to do what in their but that seems for a totally different type of installation or distro. I don't have any of those files, and my lnx4win folder is location in drive D:. Most of the batch file produces "bad command" type errors in Windows XP anyway...

Any other solution?

Did you check in the /lnx4win folder for the uninstall.bat file? Did you check on mandrake's cdrom disk for any readme files that could explain how to remove lnx4win?

I looked at the uninstall.bat file and all it does is remove two directories, /lnx4win and /mandrake, and their contents. If it finds the file named config.mdk, it deletes config.sys and then renames config.mdk to config.sys.

The last thing that is done is to restore the mbr by running the msdos command fdisk /mbr.

If you don't find anything on your cdrom disk about removing lnx4win, you could remove the files yourself and restore the mbr.