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Background:
I had my hard drive divided into three partitions.  The first partition
held DOS, the second held Linux, the third was a swap area (for Linux).  
I also had LILO doing the booting for me.

What I did:
I used the DOS fdisk program to delete my second and third partitions.  I
fear this was my error.

Where I am now:
The Linux side of the disk is trashed.  The system halts when I try to
boot with LILO.

When I try to boot with floppies, I get through the boot disk and most of
the root disk, but after I get the messages
"MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, running fsck is recommended."
"VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem)."
the system hangs.

My plan was to get linux up again and delete those partitions (and
LILO) from the Linux side like I should have done in the first place.

What I have tried:
The DOS fdisk program will not delete the non DOS partitions.  When I
delete them they appear to have been deleted, but upon running fdisk
(dos) again they are back.

What I need:
I need to get the second half of my hard disk back.  I would also like to
get LILO out of my boot area.

I do not have a Linux machine available to me at the time.  I do have the
infomagic 3 CD developers set.

Any ideas would be appreciated.  Let me also say that I am aware I did
things in the wrong order, so you can save space by leaving out the three
paragraphs about what I should have done in the first place.

Thanks very much.  Alex.

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To get rid of LILO, boot with a DOS disk and do a 'fdisk /mbr'.  Fdisk
your second and third partitions as you would like them, then reboot.  No
biggie.

Quote:>I am trying to turn my DOS machine into an exclusively DOS machine again.
> But I am afraid I did things in the wrong order and I am stuck.
>Any ideas would be appreciated.  Let me also say that I am aware I did
>things in the wrong order, so you can save space by leaving out the three
>paragraphs about what I should have done in the first place.

HTH,
Tim

1)

Quote:

>I am trying to turn my DOS machine into an exclusively DOS machine again.
> But I am afraid I did things in the wrong order and I am stuck.

2)
>The DOS fdisk program will not delete the non DOS partitions.  When I
>delete them they appear to have been deleted, but upon running fdisk
>(dos) again they are back.

2) The LILO.FAQ on the CD has the following advice. Hope it helps!

Q: How do I uninstall LILO ?
A: If you've installed LILO as your MBR (/dev/hda or /dev/sda) and if your
   previous MBR was the "standard" DOS MBR, you can remove LILO from the
   MBR by simply booting MS-DOS 5.0 and running the command
   FDISK /MBR