On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 01:22 +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > El Lunes, 21 de Agosto de 2006 00:30, Michael Sullivan escribió: > > Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating > > systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old > > games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine. She attempted to > > boot into Windows XP today, but got an error message: > > > > NTLDR is missing > > Press any key to continue > > > > I've been doing research on NTLDR, and I've found lots of help in > > restoring NTLDR, but none whatsoever in simply removing it. Her > > computer uses grub as the boot loader. I know this isn't specifically a > > Gentoo question, and not even a Linux question, but she needs WinXP for > > school (she's starting in the Medical Lab Technician program tomorrow. > > All her homework is on the computer, and our school isn't enlightened > > enough to use Linux yet.) Can anyone help me? > > I advise you to mount the winxp partition, or the partition where your > document files reside, if it is a different one. Dont have a windows box > right now at hand, but they usually are at c:\documents and > settings\<username> or something similar. Mount the partition from linux, > even a livecd can be used for that purpose. Then make a backup of the docs, > at least, the ones that you need for tomorrow. > > Then, once you have recued all the relevant stuff, you can mess up with ntldr > or reinstall or whatever. BTW, why do you want to delete it? You need to > restore it or whatever, ntldr is the Windows loader, you need it to boot > Windows ;) > > As you said, there is a lot of info on various ntldr, I left the windows > world > time ago, so I could not help on that even anyway. But I give you the advise, > first, overall if you are not familiar with anything that you need to do to > restore it, make a backup, that is never a bad thing to have. > > Jesús. >
I found this site: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR)_and_why#Single_disk_installation It's got my wife's computer doing what she wanted it to now, for the most part. I should have thought to look at the Gentoo wiki before I sent off my original mail. We're still having a problem with ALSA in Linux, but I want to work on that a bit more on my own before I go asking for help. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
