On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 21:06, JRH wrote: > Hi all. > > Until a week ago, Windows used to share my HDD alongside Linux. > > Then, last weekend, MS-DOS decided it was going to ruin my Linux install (with > a little help from me inadvertently I guess!). I have tried to survive > without a Windows partition, but In reality, I cant. > > I have loaded up 98 onto an old 2GB I have lying around, and have installed it > in the box, as a slave drive. > > Now the fun bit. DiskDrake is seeing it, and calling it /dev/hdd1. When I set > LiLo to boot from this, it doesent happen. Probably because the drive isnt > mounted at this point?? > > Any Ideas how I can configure the boot loader to pick it up, and boot into > Windows from this drive? > > I flatly refuse to let Linux and Windows co-exist on the same drive anymore!! > (if I could find Linux versions of the software I got, I would forget it > totally!). > > JRH
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