[HLUG] mandriva wont go away

[Paul Stenning]

It sounds to me like the Linux boot loader is still there.

Do you have a Windows 2000 or XP CD?  If so, try booting from it, going 
to the recovery console and typing FDISK /MBR to 'fix' the master boot 
record.  Of course as far as Windows is concerned, 'fixing' is removing 
all signs of anything non-Microsoft!

Alternatively try completely wiping the whole drive with Darik's Boot 
and Nuke, available from http://dban.sourceforge.net/  This will 
completely remove everything and will leave the drive with no partitions 
or boot record etc, just as a new drive would be.

I hope that helps....
Paul.


George at dicegeorge.com wrote:
> ive deleted all the ext3 partitions
> 
> and only got one fat32 partition with dos command.com on it
> i did format c: /s to make it bootable
> 
> but whenever i ctrl-alt-del
> a blue penguin saying Mandriva Linus
> appears and looks smugly at me...
> 
> how can i eradicate it
> so the pc will boot into my dos partition
> and then i can install ubuntu?
> 
> aaarrrrggggghhhhh
> 
> g
> 
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