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hnugz:
I have a dual boot on my machine.  The first hard drive has win2k, the second has mandrake linux.  I want to remove mandrake but i dont want to mess up anything on the win2k hd.  If i format the mbr is that going to cause some kind of problems?  How can I format just the linux drive and remove the boot loader?

CaptainCool:
Try reinstalling W2k, just do the upgrade instead of the clean install that way you don't mess up your current configuation, that should change the MBR back to 2k's.

voidmain:
Or you could just do an "FDISK /MBR". However, telling you this is against my religion. I would suggest removing win2k and installing another distro on that partition.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by hnugz:
I have a dual boot on my machine.  The first hard drive has win2k, the second has mandrake linux.  I want to remove mandrake but i dont want to mess up anything on the win2k hd.  If i format the mbr is that going to cause some kind of problems?  How can I format just the linux drive and remove the boot loader?
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what are you trying to do and what kind of problem are you having? i think i am not understanding.

i recommend you use fdisk for both those things you ask about, but i can't see why you want to remove mandrake and keep windows! very odd.

hnugz:
I just want to know how to format my second hard drive so that a) nothing happens to the win2k stuff and b) so i dont get the boot loader.  Basically my question is this.  If i do an fdisk mbr, will that have any effect other than removing the boot loader?  What will I need to do after i fdisk mbr to get everything working properly?

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