minimal installation

Mike Chalmers mikechalmers70 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 23:18:46 UTC 2007


On 2/14/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> oldman wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >>loader so that I can boot to Windows XP. You see I had a problem where
> >>I deleted my linux partitions and turned them into NTFS using
> >>Partition Magic and now I get a grub command line when I boot and I
> >>don't know how to get to Windows. That is why I was asking about a
> >>minimal installation so that I could just get the boot so that I could
> >>boot to Windows.
>
> Why didn't you say so? Why do so many people state means instead
> of goals?
>
> > Your best recourse here is to use the M$ install disk to rewrite your
> > MBR.  Depending upon which DOS you're using, I believe the command is:
>
> I concur.
>
> > fixboot
> > for Win2k, XP
>
> I can verify that this works for XP.
>
> > and
> > fdisk /mbr
> > for the other versions
>
> Even MSDOS...
>
> Mike
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I followed Mikkel's advice in another post and ran fixmbr. It worked,
thank goodness.

Kind Regards,
Preston




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