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Installing NT after Linux(clean install)

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by mancca

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I just might have really screwed up my harddisk. I had Suse Linux 6.1 instaaled on my P120 computer and wanted to install NT4. I have run fdisk from a win95 boot disk on my harddisks and perhaps stoopidely enough fdisk /mbr which brings me to my actual problem. How do I get NT to install. At this time my computer does not recognize bootable media from my harddisk! Otherwise my harddisk is fine! Help, PLEASE!!!

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by ipjunkie

Here's another option.

Boot up with the linux installer, remove ALL partitions. Then boot with a Win98 Floppy, and run fdisk /mbr. reboot, now you should be able to recreate any FAT or NTFS partitions you need to.

by yooperjeb

If you want to get rid of the Linux install also you can get a low level format utility for one of the HDD manufactures. I have done this in the past with success.

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