Re: Remove Win2000 Boot Loader

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From: Chen (weeblie_at_h.o.t.m.a.i.l.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:52:56 +0200

Huh? I didn't say that you could "fix XP" with it. I just said that there's
a way for running fdisk even if you use XP or 2k. The OPs question was "how
can you remove the win2k bootloader?", and fdisk can do that.

// Chen

"Tom" <noway@nothere.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:un7Vd86UEHA.3988@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>
> "Chen" <weeblie@h.o.t.m.a.i.l.com> wrote in message
> news:%23RROqR2UEHA.1152@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Yes, true, it won't work inside 2k or XP... But you can start from a
> > bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com) instead!
>
> Still wrong, you cannot use a bootdisk to fix XP. If you use a bootdisk,
the
> only thing that the FDISK utility will do is delete the non DOS partition
or
> if XP was FAT**, then it can remove that too. But it does not have the
> ability to fix the boot configuration (especially so if the install is
> NTFS). It does not have the ability to work as a setup disk for loading
XP.
>
> The only thing FDISK can do other than to delete, is to set different
> partitions as "active" in the case of different OSes being loaded onto
their
> own Primary partitions. But there are bootloaders that are faster and more
> efficient than FDISK is.
>
>

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