I have a sony vaio pcg-fg370 with a tiny 20GB hard drive, and today I decided to format everything, and had Suse 8.x running on it, along with Windows XP. A previous time i had mandrake isntalled on my laptop, and when i took it off, I didn't get the L 99 99 problem, I was unfortunate this time.

I used partition magic to delete the linux based partitions, and then take the free disk space and merge it with my D: partition. Then I restarted and L 99 99 99 99 99...

I have used search to look for something else related to my problem, but it said that there were no topics related to it.

I need this issue resolved as quickly as possible, for this laptop is the one I use the most frequently, my desktop is ancient, and this dell is my sisters... can some plz help a out?

Have you reinstalled lilo?

i have installed Mandrake 9.0 now, and am able to use my sony. I am on it now.

I need to learn how to REMOVE linux safely.

I you have removed the linux partitions and don't want to use lilo to boot XP then just use your recovery CD to reinstall the windows boot loader.

let me go ahead and try that again, brb.

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actualy, I still have Mandrake on it, it was only so I could get on windows. Should i use partition magic and write over the linux partitions? then fdsik /MBR ?

If you want to dual boot linux and windows then I suggest you use the linux boot loader - in this case lilo.

ok well, I got the bootloader off, and windows boots up by itself. All is good, I found some info about "rescue mode" with mandrake 9.0 and used that to remove Lilo, and horay for me!!