Michael Tokar said: > Hey there people, this is my first post to slug! I am in need of some help > and I was wondering if you guys could lend a hand/brain. Thanks for taking > the time to read! > > Ok, here's the situation: > > 2 HDDs currently on my PC > > Harddisk0 > 60gb drive > Partitioned into 2 drives - 10gb (C - XP installed on here), 50gb (D) with > everything else windows on it > > Harddisk1 > 20gb drive > Partitioned into 2 drives - 8gb (Debian installed here), 500mb (swap > space), 10gb unallocated > > I'm running low on space, so I just bought a 120gb drive to replace the > 20gb drive. But there's a problem in installing it - when I had Debian > installed (note: I did not > install it myself, I had a friend help me out), I installed LILO as the > boot selector. But now when I disconnect Harddisk1 (with Debian on it) XP > won't boot up on it's own (I understand to some degree this has to do with > the MBR of Harddisk0 ? Is this correct?) > > So I followed some advice (friends and online) and tried using the > Recovery Console by booting up with the XP CD, and then running 'fixmbr', > whilst Harddisk1 had been unplugged. It "cautioned" me about the possible > loss of partition data, and I went ahead anyway. It said fixmbr was > successful, but upon restart it gave me a 'Disk Read Error, Ctrl+Alt+Del > to restart'. I also noticed at this time that my 'D' partition was still > present, but it was of "Unknown" status (rather than NTFS - which worried > me!) So then I tried also running 'fixboot' (still with Harddisk1 > unplugged), and still no luck. > > I then tried plugging Harddisk1 back in, and all of a sudden XP loads fine > straight away (C and D drives are visible, but now LILO is gone, which I > don't really care about). So I tried again at the Recovery Console to run > 'fixmbr'; again it said it was successful, so I removed Harddisk1 and it > gave me the same error again. > > I've tried using Partition Magic to help me out but it seems useless at > this point. One thing I did notice however, was that in Partition Magic > the status of Harddisk0\Partition1 was Active, but so was > Harddisk1\Partition1 (the linux partition). I know that if I wanted to > dual boot both would have to be active, but if I want to get rid of the > linux partition, should this not be active? I couldn't find a way in > Partition Magic to 'deactivate' it, so I left it at that. > > I *could* reinstall XP on my new hard drive and then copy over everything > and install all of my programs again, but i'm obviously trying to avoid > that scenario until the last minute because it would be quite a task to do > so... > > Any help out there? It will be greatly appreciated! > > Cheers, > - Tokes > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > >
-- Sonia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
