You can do the same thing from a DOS boot floppy, and it does work for 2000/XP.
Depending on how you set things up, you may instead need to go into your partitioning tool of choice (Partition Magic, fdisk, etc) and make the Windows partition "active". This would be the case if you installed grub/lilo on the first sector of the boot partition, rather than the MBR. - Gary -----Original Message----- From: Tucker, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:22 To: 'BYU Unix Users Group' Subject: RE: [uug] Fixing windows booting... I'm not sure about XP, but with NT, doing a "fdisk /mbr" from windows will rewrite you Master Boot Record. You should be able to do a normal windows boot after that. dave -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Bowman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uug] Fixing windows booting... I know this isn't exactly a linux topic, but the problem is this... I was dual booting windows XP and Linux. I plan to purchase an additional harddrive that I am going to put linux on, so I removed it until then. However, I also removed the boot partition, so my computer doesn't boot unless I boot off a grub floppy which I can then use to chainload the windows bootloader. I would like to fix the Windows bootloader until I get the new hard drive, whereupon I'll reinstall linux and grub and all will be well. Does anyone know how to make the XP bootloader run by default so I don't have to use the floppy? Thanks Ryan 'You will find it is YOU who are mistaken, about a great many things...' - Emperor Palpatine 'Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.' - Lord Darth Vader _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
