I really need to get rid of the LILO boot manager and
linux is no longer installed. I went to the knowledge base
and it said I could fdisk the MBR but will this fdisk my
drive? I do not want to do this if I am going to lose any
data on my windows drives. Can someone please help me?

Was this what you were looking at
How to Remove the Linux LILO Boot Manager
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
that doesn't look right

The way I have always removed LILO boot manager was to uninstall LILO in
Linux before getting rid of the Linux partitions.
Another way I used was using the Windows Recovery Console and using the
'fixmbr' command which is the same as using 'fdisk /mbr' (not sure if you
can use fdisk /mbr on win xp though), you must think that running 'fdisk
/mbr' or 'fixmbr' will destroy all the data on you harddrive, (now there is
a very small chance that this could happen, but is very unlikely) but it
doesn't, it will get rid of LILO. It will restore the MBR to boot windows
instead of LILO.

If Windows XP is the only OS , the way to get rid of LILO is to start up
the Windows XP Recovery Console and use the 'fixmbr' command.
Better read this to find out more
Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

p.s don't do this if you have installed a drive overlay and try to backup
anything you dont want to lose, its very unlikey for you to lose your data.



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