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by **Stacy Sherm** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Hi there,

I had a dual boot system w/ Win95 and Linux. I hadn't used linux at home
in months so I repartitioned my drive and gave the linux partitions back
to Windows. I rebooted the computer at least once and it came up into
windows OK but now I just get "LI".

I realize I sort of did this bass ackwards but it's done.

I have no Linux left on the drive but Win95 is still intact. The computer
will not boot, it just hangs on LI. I want to be able to boot into
Windows95.

How do I fix this?

It looks like booting to DOS and doing fdisk /mbr may fix it but I want to
make doubly sure that it won't erase the windows partition of my HD.

Don't worry, I still have Linux at work. I just need Windows more at home
and don't really use Linux.

Thanks,

Stacy

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Stacy Sherman

by **Tracy William** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Doing "fdisk /mbr" after booting from a win9x startup disk is the first thing
you should try.

Tracy

>Hi there,

>I had a dual boot system w/ Win95 and Linux. I hadn't used linux at home
>in months so I repartitioned my drive and gave the linux partitions back
>to Windows. I rebooted the computer at least once and it came up into
>windows OK but now I just get "LI".

>I realize I sort of did this bass ackwards but it's done.

>I have no Linux left on the drive but Win95 is still intact. The computer
>will not boot, it just hangs on LI. I want to be able to boot into
>Windows95.

>How do I fix this?

>It looks like booting to DOS and doing fdisk /mbr may fix it but I want to
>make doubly sure that it won't erase the windows partition of my HD.

>Don't worry, I still have Linux at work. I just need Windows more at home
>and don't really use Linux.

>Thanks,

>Stacy

by **<ajalf..** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> Hi there,

> I had a dual boot system w/ Win95 and Linux. I hadn't used linux at home
> in months so I repartitioned my drive and gave the linux partitions back
> to Windows. I rebooted the computer at least once and it came up into
> windows OK but now I just get "LI".

> I realize I sort of did this bass ackwards but it's done.

> I have no Linux left on the drive but Win95 is still intact. The
computer
> will not boot, it just hangs on LI. I want to be able to boot into
> Windows95.

> How do I fix this?

> It looks like booting to DOS and doing fdisk /mbr may fix it but I want
to
> make doubly sure that it won't erase the windows partition of my HD.

> Don't worry, I still have Linux at work. I just need Windows more at
home
> and don't really use Linux.

> Thanks,

> Stacy

> --
> Stacy Sherman

I can tell you that I have personally used fdisk /mbr when struggling with
some LILO issues on my dual-boot system with Winbloze98 and I did not nuke
the Winbloze partition. However, I used fdisk /mbr from DR DOS that is on
my Linux distribution; I don't know if there is any difference in the
results.

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by **Stanislaw Flatt** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> in months so I repartitioned my drive and gave the linux partitions back
> to Windows.
> but now I just get "LI".

LILO is trying to find the _non existant_ /etc/lilo.conf.

Quote:> How do I fix this?

On any box that runs Windows 9x get into MS-DOS prompt, put diskette in drive
and do
FORMAT A: /S. Later copy from DOS directory FDISK.EXE on this diskette.
Reboot computer from this floppy and call FDISK /MBR.
Should do the trick.

Quote:
> Thanks,

Welcome

Quote:
> Stacy

Stanislaw.

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> Stacy Sherman

by **Stacy Sherm** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Thanks everyone. fdisk /mbr worked!

-Stacy

> Hi there,

> I had a dual boot system w/ Win95 and Linux. I hadn't used linux at home
> in months so I repartitioned my drive and gave the linux partitions back
> to Windows. I rebooted the computer at least once and it came up into
> windows OK but now I just get "LI".

> I realize I sort of did this bass ackwards but it's done.

> I have no Linux left on the drive but Win95 is still intact. The computer
> will not boot, it just hangs on LI. I want to be able to boot into
> Windows95.

> How do I fix this?

> It looks like booting to DOS and doing fdisk /mbr may fix it but I want to
> make doubly sure that it won't erase the windows partition of my HD.

> Don't worry, I still have Linux at work. I just need Windows more at home
> and don't really use Linux.

> Thanks,

> Stacy

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Stacy Sherman

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