From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sumit kalra Subject: RE: Overwrote bootloader Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:48:25 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <20060130154825.80202.qmail@web61022.mail.yahoo.com> References: <83810D80449F3F43A93AADE8FC643B6E5C64F6@USILMS11.ca.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <83810D80449F3F43A93AADE8FC643B6E5C64F6@USILMS11.ca.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi Dave, --- "Meyer, David R" wrote: > Don't panic...this one is easy... > > If you have the Windows XP CD, run the recovery > module and it will fix > the bootloader. Will try this. > since 2003. If you > install Linux (as you have found out) it will find > your Windows > partition and bring that option up to you so you can > once again run both OS's. This didn't work since I had overwritten the Windows boot-loader on /dev/hda1. Thanks, Sumit > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org] On > Behalf Of sumit kalra > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:25 AM > To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Overwrote bootloader > > Hi All, > > I have a dual boot machine (Win XP and Fedora Core4) > using grub as the > bootloader. The loader was working fine for both > Windows and Linux till > I started playing around with it. > > I edited /etc/grub.conf and ran 'grub-install > /dev/hda8' (windows > partition) instead of 'grub-install /dev/hda' so > basically the Linux > bootloader has overwritten the Windows boot loader. > Realizing my mistake, I ran 'grub-install /dev/hda'. > > If from the main grub screen I choose 'Linux', I can > boot into Linux but > if I choose 'Windows' I get to the same bootloader > again. > > Another problem, I can't mount the windows partition > (NTFS) since FC4 apparently doesn't support it. > > Can I, in anyway, recover the Windows bootloader? > > Thanks, > Sumit ___________________________________________________________ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs