Uninstalling Redhat 9

[dohcmark8]

I want to remove RH9 from my system, I have the Lilo boot loader and want to safely remove RH without affecting my Windows install. Yes RH is on a different partition.

[bandwidth_pig]

Boot up with your windows CD or windows boot floppy and:

fdisk /mbr

Which will get rid of Lilo. Then if you have Partition Magic or something similar you can reclaim your hard drive space. If you just want to get rid of Red Hat and try another distro, you wouldn't need to go through these steps. This would be to go back to a windows only system.

[Feanor]

You can use m$ fdisk /mbr to restore the windows master boot record. I'm not sure if you can both wipe the ext2/3 partition using red-hat fdisk (disk druid?) and reclaim it as fat32/ntfs, though. Partition Magic can reclaim the linux partition for windows use ie set it to fat32/ntfs.

I'd be interested in what the experts have to say on this one. :)

edit: haha! beaten by bandwidth_pig! ;)

[serz]

If you have WinXP:

After the fdisk /mbr you may need to boot with the cd, Restore mode and FIXMBR. Not sure about this, btw.