hi

i've been working for some years in a private company but i'm leaving this month. I use a company's laptop where i installed slackware with double boot with windows 7.So, i pretend to leave this laptop only with windows, but i have a small issue to solve.

I'm going to erase the slackware partitions (ext3) and transform it in ntfs partitions. But how do i remove the lilo boot ?

i've read somewhere that after removing linux partitions and transform them in NTFS, i should use the following command :

fdisk /mbr

Is this correct ?

Thanks in advance

I think you'd have better luck asking in a Windows forum how to restore the Windows 7 bootloader. A simple Google search suggested something like this.

Edit: also, most computers with Windows preinstalled have a restore partition. If you haven't removed that partition, it may be possible to restore the system (including the partition table and filesystems) to factory state from the BIOS or something like that.

This works too:

dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda

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You probably should have the hard drive properly erased prior to turning it in regardless. Active KillDisk works wonders to erase hard drives, and then let the IT people at your company reinstall using their media disks or remote install server.

LILO saves a MBR backup as /boot/boot.0800. Before writing it back to the MBR make sure to not destroy the partition table contained inside LBA 0.

If you don't have a MBR backup, you can write a standard MBR that boots the active partition using Make sure, that the correct partition (the Windows 7 boot partition, which is not the C: drive) has the boot flag set.