Erased MBR

[adolfo]

Hi, I have a mega problem with my laptop:

I had W2000 and Red Hat 9 on it and both were unstable so I thought to get rid of RH and reformat the HD.

I used FDISK to erase the non-DOS partitions (RH) but there was a 377meg extended DOS partition I could not get rid of.
I restarted the machine but the GRUB loader would appear and I could not get to NT.
I went on the web and found someone suggesting to use "FDISK /MBR" which I did, but now that I got rid of the Master Boot Record nothing can
load.
How do I clean up the HD so I can stert from scratch?

Any help with this matter will be much appreciated,

Adolfo

[Murf]

I don't know nadda bout Linux. But you may try this.

That 377 meg extended DOS partition. Sure it was MB and not KB? Some propriatary systems use a small partition to keep the BIOS on.

Since you have wiped some of the partition's, but haven't formatted yet, and I assume you have saved what data you want, then there is a program that will wipe that drive completely clean and reset everything back to zeroes.

ERASE HARD DRIVE (http://members.cox.net/joemurphy/murfdown.htm), located on my web page. Instructions are there on how to use.

Once this is run you will have to get into BIOS and reset the date and time and all your CMOS settings.