On Sunday 18 July 2004 23:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Marv Boyes wrote: > > I did a bad, bad thing, and I'm hoping that someone can help me > > with it. > > > > I used Partition Commander to wipe out the Mandrake 9.1 > > partition on my secondary's machine's hard drive, then gave all > > of the free space to Windows [not to worry; it's a gaming > > machine. My primary box is still blissfully MS-free. ;) ]. > > > > The problem is that now Windows won't boot. I didn't restore my > > Windows bootloader beforehand, and when I try to do so now (the > > only way I know how, from the utility provided by the Mandrake > > 9.1 installation CD), I can only get so far in the process > > before Mandrake setup stops being able to read from the CD-ROM > > drive. So when I turn on the machine, I get this: > > > > grub> > > > > I have no idea what do do with that. And without a > > /boot/grub/menu.lst, grub has no idea, either. I've been > > through all the help that grub provides, and none of it > > suggests an obvious solution. > > > > Is there any hope of fixing this, so that I can boot Windows-- > > as installed --on that drive? Or am I facing a reinstall here? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in > > advance. > > > > Marv > > Try booting to DOS, and run "fdisk /mbr" and see if that fixes > it. (Undocumented option in DOS fdisk to restore the Master Boot > Record.) > > Mikkel
...and if you can't even get into DOS, get a Windows rescue diskette from someone, boot from it and type : FDISK /MBR or look here : http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7*
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