Lance
No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his advise for repairing your
MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to restore your MBR or any
part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk(not the set of
4 install disk, but a Rescue disk you made in Win2000). If you boot to your
Install CD without using the Rescue disk the installer Will Not be able to
find your existing Win2000 partition and you will not be able to do a
restore install only a new install. This has happened to me in Win2000 so I
have first hand knowledge of what I am saying.
If you do not have a Rescue disk you will not be able to repair the MBR.
If you have data in Win2000 that you need to save the only way that I can
think of that would work is install either Win2000 or Win98 to your 2nd hd.
and then copy the data to it.
I had no data to lose so I did a new install of Win2000 and the first
thing I did afterwards was create a rescue disk.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Lance wrote:
>
> >ok, now i've had it...i have been trying to get lilo to work on my system
for
> >awhile, and something just happened to where i can't access my windows
2000
> >partition that sits on my my 1st hard drive. i don't know what happened,
but i
> >have been booting into mandrake with a floppy since lilo won't work. i
> >reinstalled lilo and changed the boot record settings (which didn't make
lilo
> >work yet again) and ever isince it won't give me access to my win2000
> >partition from linux, or without the linux boot disk! . worse yet, i
powered
> >down and put in a windows 98 boot disk, to overwrite the mbr did a fdsik
/mbr
> >to restore the mbr so i could get into windows (which has always worked),
> >restarted, and i get nothing but 0's and 7's! the data on my windows
drive is
> >still there, but i cannot access it even after rewriting the
mbr!!!!!please
> >please please help! i don't have any kind of windows 2000 rescue
disc/option,
> >so any help is appreciated! please! thanks.
>
> Best thing now, is to hope you have a DOS bootfloppy that gives you access
> to the cdplayer. Reinstall Win2000, this will do an 'upgrade' of your info
> and set up the bootsector again.
>
> Paul
>
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