nightmare...

[Dana-Renee Lee]

1. boot dos and run Fdisk to re partition the disk.
2. format the disk as a dos partition and install dos.
3. install CDROM drivers if required.
4. Install windows and you will be back in working order.

OR

Run Format/mbr

This will re write your boot record then reinstall windows.

Have Fun.

Renee Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Tobias Weisserth
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:43 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: nightmare...


Hi Jonathan,

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:40, Jonathan Ng wrote:
> I'm having the worst nightmare of my life! I
> highlighted my problems with booting up Windows after installing FC2.

> A kind soul pointed me to a manual, and I also did
> Googled the problem. Tried doing it to no avail.
> 
> Finally, I got sick and tired of FC2. And tried to
> re-install Windows XP. I tried repairing, I tried
> installing Suse Linux, I even removed the entire swap
> and ext3 partition. But Windows NEVER boots up. Now,
> my hard disk is nearly useless. All thanks to the
> wonderful F-ing FC2.
> 
> Can anyone help me?

Only if you provide more information.

Do you have a Knoppix CD or any other bootable live CD? You need to post the
output of fdisk, thus your partition table.

Maybe you just partitioned your drive in a way that there is no bootable
primary partition. We can't know unless you provide more info.

> By the way, it seems that this problem was around
> since FC1, why the hell didn't they fix it?!?!

I still don't know *what* problem you're talking about. Please do always
point people to some referring document or link when you open a new thread.

There was a problem with newer distributions and the master boot sector. You
need to find out if that is *your* problem however.

The most important thing is a cool head. Don't panic and don't "panic
install" one OS over the other in order to solve your problem. You won't
succeed if you don't know what's the problem.

regards,
Tobias


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