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Kevin Reichhart wrote:
| dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX will write zeros to every byte in your
| partition, effectively deleting everything there.
yes, _never_ do this, dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda is a much better
way of accelerating preformance in
On 2004/01/08, at 23:23, Stephen Clowater wrote:
Oh come on, have a sense of humor. If you execute commands you read on
a
mailing list from someone whom you don't know without at least reading
the first 3 lines of the man page, well, you needed to learn the hard
way.
learn what? in sixth grade
Kevin Reichhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want to use the windoze bootloader, do the following:
Assuming that your windows partition is hda1, at the grub command line,
type:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot
This will boot into windows. Once in windows, open a
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:51:08PM -0600, Rainer Sigwald wrote:
I don't have a winxp boot floppy, only a cdrom. Will a 98 disk do?
Boot from XP CD, run 'recovery console', log in to the right windows installation.
Then run 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr' . . . will obliterate GRUB, but should boot
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:01:16 +0100
Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looking at the rest of this thread, I wonder: What have I done... ;-)
Thomas
Not much other than ask a few pertinent questions, but there are always a few dorks
lurking on any list, and the topic of Windows is
08, 2004 1:59 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub
Hi there,
I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had
grub reinstall it.
The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write
it in the boot partition instead of the mbr
Hi there,
I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had
grub reinstall it.
The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write
it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on a hdb,
so there is no effect.
Is there a way to restore
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:59:30 +0100
Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had
grub reinstall it.
The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0),
write it in the boot partition instead of the
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp?
Boot with a win9x bootdisk. use fdisk to mark the windows XP disk as the
active partition. Then use the command: fdisk /mbr
That will return the MBR To windows XP bootable. Marking the XP partition
active may or may
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Barry Marler wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:59:30 +0100
Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had
grub reinstall it.
The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0)
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:21:13PM -0500, Christopher Fisk wrote:
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp?
Boot with a win9x bootdisk. use fdisk to mark the windows XP disk as the
active partition. Then use the command: fdisk /mbr
done, but no effect.
El Jueves, 8 de Enero de 2004 20:59, Thomas Buntrock escribió:
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp?
Are you sure this is the forum for your question?
This's a Linux-Gentoo forum, I think.
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Cordiales saludos
Manuel Pérez López
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I don't have a winxp boot floppy, only a cdrom. Will a 98 disk do?
Boot from XP CD, run 'recovery console', log in to the right windows installation.
Then run 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr' . . . will obliterate GRUB, but should boot windows.
Then fix Linux.
That's what I do when I mis-install grub
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 19:59, Thomas Buntrock wrote:
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp?
Thanks, Thomas
If you would like to restore the original XP bootloader this can be
achieved by booting the Windows XP cdrom and starting a 'Recovery
Console' session.
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:36:24 +0100
Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Barry Marler wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:59:30 +0100
Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:50:34PM +0100, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manuel P???rez
L???pez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
El Jueves, 8 de Enero de 2004 20:59, Thomas Buntrock escribi:
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp?
Are you sure this is the forum for your
; I'm pretty sure
boot again in rescue mode but this time don't type fixmbr but:
fixboot
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From: Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:17:13 -0800
Drake Wyrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:50:34PM +0100, in
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Manuel P???rez
L???pez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
El Jueves, 8 de Enero de 2004 20:59, Thomas Buntrock escribi«Ñ:
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot
Don't be an ass, he is asking a valid question, if you don't know the answer than don't post, there is no need for slamming, you troll. that being said i will go on to explain what i think is a solution
You can use grub to boot your system, in fact lilo or grub is about the only way to
Thomas Buntrock wrote:
Hi there,
I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had
grub reinstall it.
The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write
it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on a hdb,
so there is no effect.
Is
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp?
I have very good universal solution for all micro$hit systems,
which will prevent such troubles forever:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX
hdXX is micro$hit partition
Yeah, that works, but it kind of makes stuff like Age of
Hi there,
I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had
grub reinstall it.
The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write
it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on a hdb,
so there is no effect.
Is there a way to
Please dont post suggestions like this without a more detailed
explanation - newbies have been known to blindly follow such suggestions
with the predictable results.
Also, the language is a bit ... objectionable ... for a public list.
Please no flames
BillK
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:50,
Do NOT use
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX
it will
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Please dont post suggestions like this without a more detailed
explanation - newbies have been known to blindly follow such suggestions
with the predictable results.
Also, the language is a bit
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX will write zeros to every byte in your
partition, effectively deleting everything there.
Due to the malicious intent of the sender, I would like to see the sender
removed from the list. However, since I'm not the list admin, it's not my
call.
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