He's got it right. Just make sure that the only thing you repair are the
boot files. If you do the SAM or registry you'll mess up your NT install.
Joseph Red
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Calabi Yau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost NT Partition
> I just installed Mandrake 7.2 on a box triple booting WinME, NT and W2K
pro
> and the grub loader installed several choices, one of which is DOS, which
> when selected, brings up my "original" nt boot menu showing the three OS's
I
> originally had. As a backup, I made a NT boot disk first, just in case
the
> loaders didn't work right.
>
> You should be able to just re-boot off the three NT floppies and do a
> repair, instead of install.
>
> Yau
>
>
> >
> > >>> "Edward Stow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3:15:30 PM 1/8/01 >>>
> >I have unsuccessfully tried to install Mandrake 7.2. onto my
> >machine that had NT4 installed on a NTFS formated primary
> >partition.
> >
> >Problems:
> >* Mandrake 7.2 installed GRUB but does not give me any option to
> >boot to NT.
> >* Selecting the Linux option in GRUB - Linux hangs during bootup.
> >* (Also during installation I tried but could not create a
> >bootdisk.)
> >
> >Question:
> >How can I boot into my NT partition? I don't care if the
> >Mandrake installation is lost.
> >
> >Edward Stow
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
>
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