Hi, This suggestion will NOT work if your Win2K is installed on an NTFS partition, as there IS NO fdisk in Win2K (and win95 floppy will NOT recognize NTFS drive); You will have to boot into rescue mode (by using the install floppies OR the rescue floppy set you made), and use "fixmbr". HTH, David Charles On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Eric Paynter wrote: > On September 23, 2001 01:18 pm, Leif Madsen wrote: > > Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now > > can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school > > tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. > > The quick and dirty way to get back into windoze (while blowing away LILO for > now) is to boot to DOS and rewrite the master boot record. Your windoze > recovery disk should have the appropriate files present. Simply run "fdisk > /mbr" from the DOS command line. Then run "fdisk" and select your windoze > partition as "active". Then remove your recovery disk and reboot. It should > come up with windoze. You can fix LILO later by booting from your madrake > install CD. > > Good luck! > > -Eric > > -- > arctic bears - email and name services > 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month > DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year > for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com > >
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