Guest Lara Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 I tried to linux mandriva . No working So i used partition manager 7 to delete all partition When I boot same kind of strange 1 1 1 appare to screen. Seems that previous mandrivia installing wrote some kinde of forgotten information on the hard disk. I wont just to renew hard disk to use with standard windows xp again Does somebody tell me haw can do it ? thanks Best Reg [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Welcome on board :) I think the text you see is from the boot-loader, which is in the Master Boot Record of the primary disk, hence indeed a little "hidden". I don't have experience with this problem, but you should find something by looking for "restore windows MBR" here or on Google. Good luck! Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 AS Yves says the MBR is over written with the boot loader.... Since you have partition magic the easiest way to restore is probably just using boot manager which comes with partition manager as I remember. You can also boot from a Windows install CD or bootable floppy and use FDISK /MBR this restores a windows boot partition... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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