I have a win2000pro box which daul booted to suse 8.0. I recently removed suse. But some how lilo wasn't removed. How can I uninstall lilo so I can start fresh in setting up a newer version of linux to dual boot? Thanks in advance!

You can always do a "fdisk /mbr" from Win2k's dos shell. It will remove everything on the Master Boot Record (including lilo) of your hard drive. Normally your Win2K should still boot after.

my system can't find fdisk /mbr through cmd prompt. Where can that be found? Is fdisk located on the recovery cd?

If you have a windows startup disk i.e. win 98, me etc, you can boot from that and then do "fdisk /mbr".

You can also pop in the win2k CD and try the recovery console. It will be in there incase you don't have the floppy disk as mentioned by reddazz.

I use a Windows 98 CD, I boot from it, choose "Start Computer with CD-ROM support" then type d: (or whatever your cd-drive is) to cd to the cd dir and type "fdisk /mbr"

I believe under windows 2000 you want to boot from the install cds and get into the recovery console, from there I believe the command you want is "fixmbr" , and if the boot sector is damaged and fixmbr couldnt get the job done you can try "fixboot". so here's what you should do if you want to just start booting strait into windows:

1. insert win2000 install/recovery cds

2. allow computer to boot from cd's

3. when the selection menu comes up I believe you hit 'R' for recovery console, then 'C' for command prompt.

4. on the command line type:

fixmbr

<enter>

5. try rebooting and see if it works, if not reboot again and try:

fixboot

<enter>

fixmbr

<enter>

and reboot.


Hope that helps, it was all from memory about the menu's and whatnot so there could be a few errors in my thinking, but I did look up those two commands for you and I believe they are what you want if you are running win 2000

You guys are great, it's nice to know theres help out there (and so quick to help at that). I'll try these solutions and let you know how it went.
Doug