Take a Windows 98 startup disk (get a friend to make one if you have 95 or else install your CDROM driver to a win95 boot disk). Boot with CDROM support enabled.
From DOS:
A>D:: (Could be E:, depending on where your CD got assigned)
(and your linux install CD should be in that CD drive you are pointing to with DOS)
D:\ > cd \dosutils
D:\DOSUTILS> autoboot
THis should bring up the Linux install--choose Custom and choose fdisk, then delete the partitions and recreate them as you desire. DON'T change the size or delete/recreate DOS, Win95 FAT32s or anything like that or your system absolutely will not boot.
If I have misunderstood and win9x isn't booting either, use the same DOS startup and
A> fdisk /mbr
Should make windows accessible.
If windows is booting, you might just want to boot windows and drop out to a restart in DOS and check if your system can still see the CD. If so, switch there and use the \DOSUTILS\AUTOBOOT.BAT Program.
Unfortunately, AUTOBOOT needs real mode, so you cannot just boot it out of windows.
Civileme
Joe Brault wrote:
Does anyone know of any program that will work in dos, or win95 that I can
get off the internet that will lwet me delete a linux partition??? I have an
exteded partition on my system with linux on it, and I want to wipe the
whole system and start over, but I can't even get it to reboot with my
origional disk. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance...Nighthawk
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