[CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting that happens to have one in their bag of tricks... So I found instructions on doing this in Ubuntu:

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:29:01 +0100: I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting that happens to have one in their bag of tricks... If this is an XP system and the MBR set

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:29:01 +0100: I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting that happens to have one in their bag of tricks... If this is

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

Robert Moskowitz schrieb: My corporate tech guy told me the first step is to get a standard XP mbr back on the system, and then he believes he can talk me through getting the encryption working again. If you really have SafeBoot, I have my doubts about that. cheers, Rainer

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

Rainer Duffner wrote: Robert Moskowitz schrieb: My corporate tech guy told me the first step is to get a standard XP mbr back on the system, and then he believes he can talk me through getting the encryption working again. If you really have SafeBoot, I have my doubts about that. Got to

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:51:49 +0100: I mean, who carries such a CD with them to a week-long meeting? Well, I used to take my setup CD with me for a while when I took the laptop with me. It should even suffice if you can get a time-bombed demo CD. It can also be Win2k

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting that happens to have one in their bag of tricks... If this is an XP system and the MBR set by XP, then you can boot

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

Robert Moskowitz wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:29:01 +0100: I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting that happens to have one in their bag of

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

Scott Silva wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:49:42 -0700: I am wondering if any standard Microsoft boot sector might work. I could probably e-mail you a CD image of a dos 7.1 bootdisk if fdisk /mbr would work. I have never tried it, and maybe I'll quickly fire up a VM image of XP and try it.