I'm not sure which version of windows you are using, but sometimes a copy of the original MBR is stored in a different place on the hard disk by the OS.
If you want to restore windows booting, it's worth a shot. I've had cases where fdisk /mbr doesn't work, but restoring from the backed up MBR does. You would first need to find where the backup is, and then use a hard disk sector editing tool to copy it back. Anybody know a Linux floppy or ISO image to boot and run such a utility? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CAMERON NIKITIUK Sent: April 9, 2004 3:08 PM To: CLUG General Subject: [clug-talk] Help - Grub Hard Disk Error Hi All, In keeping up with my trend of publishing my failures with Linux (seem to learn more that way), I have another one to add to the collecttion. I recently purchased and finally got installed a 160GB hard drive. It is set up as slave with a seperate 20GB Windows drive. This is to allow me to install a fresh Linux install and then migrate from the existing windows drive. I went to the task of installing Suse 9.0 Pro last night and this morning and when it finished with the first disk and rebooted the following error came up: GRUB HARD DISK ERROR I did try and reboot and boot from hard disk from the Suse disk and tried to do a recovery, but cancelled it as I was heading out of town and couldn't deal with it at that moment. From what I have been able to determine from googling and such, I may have made a booboo with my bootloader parameters. >From what I can remember from going through the install process, I may have boot GRUB on my windows disk (hda). The suggestions I have seen include getting a windows boot disk (this was a person running 98), booting into a dos prompt and entering fdisk /mbr. I am aware that this can pooch your system, if you are not careful. Seeing this is a completely virgin install, I am just wondering if thsi is the way to go or should I just go to installation from the Suse disk and fix the booloader from there. Or does any one have any other suggestions that they can think of. I do have Partition Magic 7.0 at my disposal and extra machines to make disks and such so I am not worried about that. However, I don't want to screw up the windows disk (20GB drive) as it has all my info on there. Any suggestions are welcome...as are offers to come over and fix it for me...LOL!!! ;-) Cameron _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
