DO NOT PANIC. YOU WILL NOT LOOSE EVEN A SINGLE BIT OF DATA. BUT MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR MBR at least the first 1024 bytes BEFORE YOU DO ANY OF THIS METHOD.
like dd if=/dev/hda of=/backup.mbr bs=1024 count=1 Do do this make sure you have a bootable cd either windows or linux handy. Do one thing first of all remove the MBR to do that try either lilo -u the device name but if you have installed the boot loader in MBR you should use the appropriate device name for an example the first hard disk becomes /dev/hda the second becomes /dev/hdb then try lilo -u /dev/hda the run fdisk from linux activate your partition that you want to boot. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 261 2096451 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 262 784 4200997+ 1c Hidden Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 * 785 2160 11052720 83 Linux /dev/hda4 2161 2205 361462+ 82 Linux swap Like do you see the '*' to do that from within fdisk press 'a' then choose the partition that is it but ***you should not see more than one star***(because * is a toggling switch ). that may your bios will not boot the hard disk or it will boot using the first active partition depending upon the BIOS version. then you should be OK to boot your big head WIN2K. If you use WIN98 CD then try running 'fdisk /mbr' first of all then reboot -- I MEAN IT. then again boot from CD. then run fdisk again set your active partition. --- Rupesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Windows 2000. Any idea. > > -Rupesh > > --- Chandrakumar Muthaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have WIN95/98/ME > > > > Then boot there and run fdisk /mbr > > > > --- Rupesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I have a dual boot of RedHat 7.2 & Windows 2000. > > My > > > boot manager is GRUB, I want to uninstall GRUB & > > > restore my system bootup to Windows 2000. > > > > > > I want to remove RedHat from my system, without > > > actually re-installing & disturbing the current > > > Windows setup. > > > > > > How can I do the above? > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > -Rupesh > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals > http://personals.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
