when load up the live cd, (before installing live) and it gives me the option to boot from the hard drive, I boot to the 1st hard drive, and it gives me this message: booting from local hard disk... Error loading operating system
I am wondering if the problem is in the partition table, or if it is the MBR. I know it is dangerous to mess with the MBR, but I would like to try to rescue this WIMPDOS system because it would be a great learning exercise. I would normally just say delete the windows, and install a jaunty/xp dual boot. but I could learn something valuable. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:08:51 -0700 > Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] blue screen of death > > > I don't have a system on which i'm able+willing to try it out, > but if your goal is to revert it to an MS-Windows only partition table > (whether temporary or permanent), I think something like the following > sequence would work. I'd back up before touching a partition table > (even if doing something that i would believe is known to always work). > > 1. Boot with Ubuntu live CD in CD-ROM > 2. Boot from first hard drive (instead of live CD session or installer), > when the Ubuntu CD asks you. > 3. Run command shell box (cmd.exe) > 4. fdisk /mbr > (fdisk is the one to treat with great respect) > > Randall > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009
