Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

[medpen]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Paul wrote:

> 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
> 
> 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.


Win2000 will only let your reinstall which will re-rewrite
everything, and all data will be lost.  It tells you this should you
choose to do so.  I went through this the first time.  W98 will allow
you to just install over what you have without any problems, but not
so in W2K.

Regards,

Gary