On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:24 +0100 Thomas Buntrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Barry Marler wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:59:30 +0100 > > Thomas Buntrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i > > > had grub reinstall it. > > > > > > The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), > > > write it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is > > > running on a hdb, so there is no effect. > > > > > > Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without > > > reinstalling xp? > > > > Boot with a Windows boot floppy. From the command line, execute > > "fdisk /mbr", to write the master boot record to the hard disk > > without altering partition table information. > > I don't have a winxp boot floppy, only a cdrom. Will a 98 disk do? > However, that will only fix the mbr, what about the boot sector in the > first partition? > > Thomas > Recovery console -> fixboot/fixmbr? -- Barry Marler Information Analyst II Center for Applied Genetic Technologies University of Georgia Athens, GA USA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
