I recently installed Linux on my laptop for testing purposes but today started to re-install my entire system from scratch. I plan to install Win2000, some data partitions, and add Linux later.
I booted to a MSDOS CD, launched Partition Magic that was on it, and deleted every partition. ALl that was left was one huge unformatted space. I applied the operation. After it finished, I created new partitions the way I wanted and set the one I needed to Active. When it was done I took out the cd and rebooted. And Linux (Mandrake 9) still came up!!, did some stuff, and told me that there were errors and valid partitions not found.
Then I figured that all that stuff was probably installed into the Boot Sector of the hard drive (although I don't see how since I deleted all partitions and reformatted everything). I put in my bootable CD and ran FDISK.EXE /MBR. I rebooted and finally it told me what I wanted to see - that there is no bootable devices.
I'm just wondering still...Was doing fdisk /mbr enough or is it possible that remnants of LInux are still there on my drive?
