John,
Using a floppy made by and wih the utilities from the version of Windon't
that you have installed (and there are several versions of Win95 alone),
booting to the floppy and fdisk /mbr should work. I don't know if it would
work on versions after Win98, but on any earlier version it wo
dluck,
rich
-Original Message-
From: John Hendrickx [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 11:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!
I've found out a little more about the nature of my problem (Linux on my
slave
John Hendrickx wrote:
[snip]
> sfdisk reported that the problem was between hda6 and hda9. I used
> fdisk to remove the Linux partions and now I'm e-mailing from Windows
> again :-)
>
> The problem seems to be that diskdrake on Linux-Mandrake 7.0 doesn't
> understand large disks. It wrote the fau
--- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Hendrickx wrote:
> > Bottom line is that my partition table is all screwed up. Does
> anyone know how
> > to fix it?
>
> Johnthe problem I see is that the ending cylinder of hda10
> (Linux) and the beginning cylinder of hda6 (Fat32) are t
John Hendrickx wrote:
>
> I've found out a little more about the nature of my problem (Linux on my slave
> IDE works fine but I can't boot Windows on my masteer IDE after installing a
> second Linux system). Basically I guess the partition table is all messed up.
> Running diskdrake reports "part
John Hendrickx wrote:
[snip]
> In any case, the output looks similar to yours. /dev/hda1 is
> recognized as a FAT32 boot device. I should be able to boot Windows,
> but I can't.
>
> The problem could be related to the fact that my BIOS doesn't
> recognize the geometry of this disk because it's la
I've found out a little more about the nature of my problem (Linux on my slave
IDE works fine but I can't boot Windows on my masteer IDE after installing a
second Linux system). Basically I guess the partition table is all messed up.
Running diskdrake reports "partitions sector # 15004773) (14652M
--- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Hendrickx wrote:
> >
> > I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of
> my
> > primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's
> more,
> > if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't
> > r
--- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Hendrickx wrote:
> >
> > I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of
> my
> > primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's
> more,
> > if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't
> > re
John Hendrickx wrote:
>
> I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my
> primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more,
> if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't
> recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy, t
dont ask me why but it works and im sure you have never done this turn your
system off!!
leave it alone for a couple minutes at least 10 seconds if your impatient and
then turn it on, when grub boots try windows, you should be able to boot into
windows, for some reason linux affects th
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