In a message dated: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:10:20 EST
"Dave hardy" said:
>I managed to blow away LILO but am having trouble reformatting the drive; I t
>ried it from the DOS shell and also using Partition Magic, which clearly displ
>ays the half dozen or so partitions I have with RH but will only allow me to f
>ormat the Win32 partition of 40MB and I can't recover the other 15GB of space
>that I need from the other partitions; in fact, the "format" option is grayed
> out on the drop-down menu.
Boot from a bootable floppy disk and use the format command with the /mbr
option:
formate /mbr C:
That should restore the MBR.
Good luck.
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Seeya,
Paul
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