lilo -U should uninstall Lilo and give you the old boot sector back.
You can also wipe LILO from the MBR and get Windows back by booting with a DOS
floppy that has fdisk on it and entering
fdisk /MBR
I don't know if you have to enter an option for drive C since you have more than
one HD.
scott
Russell Hires wrote:
> Hey Guys and Gals,
>
> I've made a stupid mistake by installing the MBR on the Windows drive
> (/dev/hda), rather than the Linux drive (/dev/hdd). I wasn't paying too much
> attention to this, unfortunately (see where inexperience can lead you? :-),
> and now I can't boot off my hard drive, unless I boot from floppy, and then I
> can only get into Linux (darn! ;-)...obviously I need to spend more time
> reading about this stuff, but in the mean time, I wonder if, because I
> installed the mbr on the wrong drive if I'll ever get Windows back.
>
> (Just so everyone knows, the main reason I want the Windows is I've never had
> the <ahem!> pleasure of dealing with it on a regular basis...I just like the
> technology aspect (or lack thereof, considering its origin) of having
> experience with yet another OS. I hold in some esteem people who have talked
> about computers and such from times before I was born, and hopefully one day
> I can tell some young kid, "Yeah, I remember that old dinosaur! It's been out
> of existence for a long time now.")
>
> Russell
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