On Sunday 18 July 2004 03:29 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: | 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.
http://www.bootdisk.com However, if you do go the re-install route, it shouldn't hurt anything--as long as you don't format the hd. . A simple install over a previous copy of Windows is one way to repair a fubar'd Win system. e
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