On 07/02/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10(a)charter.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 09:38 +0100, lorenzo.sandini(a)pp.inet.fi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Moving my FC4 install to a bigger machine, and recycling the old computer to
> be a windows xp desktop computer.
>
> Booted from the WinXP CD, formatted the whole drive, and hoped the MBR would
> be overwritten and clean, but it is not.
>
> On reboot, I am offerend to choose between Win XP and "former OS", which
> obviously needs nowhere.
>
> fdisk /mbr doesn't do a thing. How can I get rid of the reference to the
> former OS in the boot menu ? I know I can edit the boot.ini, but is there any
> trace of FC4 on the HDD that needs to be cleared ?
>
> Lorenzo
This is just a boot.ini setting. Just remove the other entry in there
and that is all you need to do. Your MBR is fine, otherwise you
wouldn't be seeing that menu.
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Kind regards,
John Francis