Marv Boyes wrote:
I did a bad, bad thing, and I'm hoping that someone can help me with
it.
I used Partition Commander to wipe out the Mandrake 9.1 partition on
my secondary's machine's hard drive, then gave all of the free space
to Windows [not to worry; it's a gaming machine. My primary box is
still blissfully MS-free. ;) ].
The problem is that now Windows won't boot. I didn't restore my
Windows bootloader beforehand, and when I try to do so now (the only
way I know how, from the utility provided by the Mandrake 9.1
installation CD), I can only get so far in the process before
Mandrake setup stops being able to read from the CD-ROM drive. So
when I turn on the machine, I get this:
grub>
I have no idea what do do with that. And without a
/boot/grub/menu.lst, grub has no idea, either. I've been through all
the help that grub provides, and none of it suggests an obvious
solution.
Is there any hope of fixing this, so that I can boot Windows-- as
installed --on that drive? Or am I facing a reinstall here? Any help
would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance.
Marv
Try booting to DOS, and run "fdisk /mbr" and see if that fixes it.
(Undocumented option in DOS fdisk to restore the Master Boot Record.)
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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