ERROR: "Missing Operating System"

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Aseem Nasnodkar said:
theraven..........i tried fdisk.mbr by booting to dos thro 98 but it did not just shw up nething for that command
And just went to the next line.

Same error persists.

Intallation of win98 sez dat i need to delete non-dos partitions on the drive to install win98. I dont want to loose my data.

y don't u attach Ur disk to another friends and take backup its as simple as that :?
 

theraven

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ive told u before im gonna tell u for the last time
U HAVE TO BACKUP UR DRIVE AND DELETE AND FORMAT ALL PARTITIONS !

u can try the bootloader option from YAST config as suggested by hsksattish ...
try removing the bootloader
then linux wont boot anymore
ur MBR should become free and ull be able to install winxp

btw thats fdisk_/mbr
_ ===> space
 
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Aseem Nasnodkar

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i tried fdisk /mbr man... It dsnt work.
Also i have deletd all my partitions... made a primary dos partition... formatted it and tried installing xp... same error... And BTW i cud not find a boot loader config option in yast.
 
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