Why not wipe everything on the hd and start all over again with mdk cd and format the hd into fat32 and then reinstall windows and mdk9 again ?Also, i think maybe you got this problem bcoz you didnt defrag windows first when you try to install mdk 9.
Choong James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 23:49, Felix Miata wrote: >> James Sparenberg wrote: >> >> > I've found it a computer that will not install windows. Which really >> > sucks in this case. >> >> > One of our employees got a set of Mandrake 9.0 disks from me, and >> > took it home to install on her box. It's already running win2000. Well >> > the first install she messed up somehow at the end (Not sure what she >> > did but it wouldn't boot.) So she did the windows thing and re-installed >> > it. ... ooops. Seems the first time she put lilo on the first >> > partition from a set of disks she had. (I think she said it was 8,0) and >> > the second was from the 9,0 and she put lilo in the mbr this time.... >> > Linux went in like a dream... works great. problem is when she tries to >> > boot into Win2000 .... the lilo on hda1 (her win2000 partition) locks up >> > and won't accept keystrokes. ugg. Try to install win2000 again and let >> > it repair itself.... no dice .. the dang box will not boot from the 2000 >> > CD (tried 2 different ones that work on other boxes) nor will it boot >> > from any of the recovery CD's Nor can win98 install or winXP. Linux >> > works fine. >> >> It could be an "active" partition issue. No windoze version will >> tolerate more than one "active" primary partition, while linux pays no >> attention to this concept and sometimes will happily make an additional >> primary "active". > >thought of that one...Checked it out via DOS and Linux fdisk.... the >win2000 aka hda1 is the only active partition. >> >> > Now to the question. What is the file on hda1 that would be the file >> > that provides the lilo boot loader. If I could remove that file the >> > lilo in the MBR would be able to boot windwos. Can't restore with lilo >> > -u because the second install overwrote the first installs mbr backup. >> > So all I can get with lilo -u is the hda1 lilo coming up and locking up. >> > (2 keystoke max...) >> >> > Turns out DOS and NT boot disks/cd's don't recognize her cdrom or cdrw >> > ... so they can't load them up. I would like to know what the file is >> > though to remove from hda1 to destroy the unwanted lilo boot screen. >> > Plan right now is to hang an older cdrom I have off of the box long >> > enough to re-install windwoze and work from there. BTW Mandrake caught >> > 100% of the hardware on this box without a problem. >> >> I don't think it is a question of a file to "remove". The problem is the >> partition boot sector, which needs lilo replaced with the standard >> windoze version. With w9x, this is simply booting the rescue floppy to >> do 'SYS C:'. In W2K, I don't think there is such a thing as a rescue >> floppy. You'll probably need to find a different CD reader that will >> boot the W2K CD. When you boot that, there is a menu option "repair an >> existing installation". If you choose that, it brings up two more >> choices, "recovery console", and "emergency repair process". The latter >> is probably what you need. > >This is the plan... BTW 2000 does have an emergency rescue disk... >Unfortunately you have to be able to boot into 2000 to use it since it's >not a bootable disk... (explain the logic in this one please! ;) ) Like >I said resetting the MBR is a breeze... it's just finding out where that >second Lilo prompt is coming from (the one on hda1) is the bear... and >yes. I've got an old 24x cdrom going to the office with me tomorrow. >(along with a 40 pin ribbon cable) > >James > >> -- >> ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would have them do >> to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV >> __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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