[aclug-L] Re: Sick Computer...

[Ironrose <amccadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried fdisk /mbr to clear the first 10 cylinders of the windows
drive?  Is your hard drive compressed via M$ drivespace?

Burt Humburg wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone. My stupid Windoze box just died, but it's a software thing and
> I think I can recover...
> 
> ...the problem is that in order for Windows 98 to get off its ass and
> install itself, I have to remove the bootloader LILO that now occupies the
> master boot record (or something). (Specifically, the warning was that the
> Windoze installer wouldn't work on a drive that was compressed, etc. Remove
> the compression and try again.)
> 
> Can someone brief me on how to remove LILO such that my bootability is as it
> was before Linux was installed?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> BCH
> 
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