Joe....use a dos or windows9x boot disc with fdisk on it and
type:
fdisk /mbr
NT uses the same mbr bootstrap as dos and windows9x.
Alan
Joseph S Gardner wrote:
>
> Ok, after banging head on keyboard I've decided to ask for help.
>
> I tried installing 7.0-2 on a 6x85 MX 200 that already had NT on it.
> I added a 3rd HD and dedicated it entirely to linux leaving the first
> 2 alone (silly me) hoping to dual boot.
>
> Well all was going well until I went to configure X and when I
> selected my monitor (Magnvox 17" with a Diamond Stealth ll S200) it
> dumped bytes all over my lap forcing me to use the big red help
> switch. The boot floppy that was created has some type of error on
> it and it won't complete the boot and somehow or another the MBR on
> the NT disk's are amuck now and I can't even reboot into that.
>
> I need to get the MBR back on the NT disks and at this point my brain
> is fried and don't know where to look. Any pointers?
>
> If memory serves my I need to run fdisk MBR but am unsure if this
> works with NT (with NTFS) and don't want to screw things up any
> further than I already have.
>
> -- Joe Gardner
> Handi Krafts
> www.handi-krafts.com
>
> Linux is like a wigwam,
> No windows, no gates,
> and Apache inside
>
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