I would boot a windows CD to a command prompt and run fdisk /mbr on your boot disk to rewrite your master boot record. Chris :) -- **Any opinion(s) contained within this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not in any way, directly or indirectly represent my employer. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dana-Renee Lee Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:38 PM To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' Subject: RE: nightmare... 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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tobias Weisserth Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:43 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
