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LILO - Would Like To Use A Different Booter or None at All

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I installed Linux the other day. Now today I removed the partition in which it resided. So now my HD is empty. Well.. SO I thought. Now when I boot up I still get the LILO bott manager. How can I remove it? I have XP on another hard drive. Why doesn't XP need a boot manager similar to LILO or does it?
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Well fdisk /MBR will do the job for you as svenkarlsen.

Have a check here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/dual_booting.asp to have more clear picture about the dual boot for M$ windoz

Also, I'm not use M$ products, but there is another way to remove your lilo if fdisk /MBR not working, but I can't remember exactly how, there is something like recover mode to recover the boot record of winXP and/or win2K.

But fdisk /MBR will work for 90%
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Thanks Svenkarlsen. I did the fdisk /mbr and it worked like you said. How come XP does't put it's boot loader into the mbr? Strange..