Bug Hunter wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
Thanks,
I fingered it out. I found an old dos disk ( thank G_d for being a pack rat )
ran "fdisk /mbr" and all was well. BTW this was NTFS disk/partition - go
figure.
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Joseph S. Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
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Linux is like a wigwam...
No windows, no gates.
Apache inside
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