Help lost my boot wotsit

**Doot** · May 21st, 2002, 06:29 PM

Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.2 on my system which was duel boot 98 and XP. Anyway Mandrake installed is own bootloader onto D: which is XP how do I restore it or remove the Linux boot loader. Mandrake didn`t install correctly anyway so I gotta do it again.

**krohnjw** · May 21st, 2002, 06:38 PM

boot to dos, then fdisk/mbr
that should get your windows boot loader back.

edit: Jeeze, that was a slip of the mind there. Sorry

**Doot** · May 21st, 2002, 06:40 PM

and not format the whole drive?

**Inanis** · May 21st, 2002, 07:14 PM

I think the command he was reffering to was:

"fdisk /mbr"

not "format /mbr"

**Doot** · May 22nd, 2002, 04:23 AM

I used fixmbr and is sorted now, I gotta replace the boot menu on my Win98 partition that I lost. Just means I don`t get a choice of XP or 98 when I boot now.