Get your NT installation cd. If it is NT 4, on another machine create
the three boot floppies for NT. Then boot from those floppies, with NT in
the cdrom drive. It will ask you if you want to repair a previous NT
installation. That is what you want to do.
i've never done this. Good luck.
wade
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Joseph S Gardner wrote:
> Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help.
>
> I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that already had NT on it.
> I added a 3rd HD and dedicated it entirely to linux leaving the first
> 2 alone (silly me) hoping to dual boot.
>
> Well all was going well until I went to configure X and when I
> selected my monitor (Magnvox 17" with a Diamond Stealth ll S200) it
> dumped bytes all over my lap forcing me to use the big red help
> switch. The boot floppy that was created has some type of error on
> it and it won't complete the boot and somehow or another the MBR on
> the NT disk's are amuck now and I can't even reboot into that.
>
> I need to get the MBR back on the NT disks and at this point my brain
> is fried and don't know where to look. Any pointers?
>
> If memory serves my I need to run fdisk MBR but am unsure if this
> works with NT (with NTFS) and don't want to screw things up any
> further than I already have.
>
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