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I have a dual boot 40GB laptop, Windows 2000 & an old Mandrake 2.4 kernel edition. The Mandrake takes up 10GB and I would like to delete it and use a disk manager to convert it to NTFS to use on the Windows side.
I configured it to boot with LILO and then to windows as the primary OS.
If I delete the Mandrake partition will the Windows bootloader automatically take over or will I lose the ability to boot to Windows
I believe you will lose it since you will wipe out /boot. What you should do is boot from your Windows CD, get to a recovery shell, and do "fixmbr" and "fixboot". That will reinstall Windows' bootloader to the MBR. Then you can boot Windows and take over the 10GB partition.
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