Lance
I see the [newbie] server is delaying again this message posted to me
before your [newbie] post did.
When you went to the recorery console and executed your commands a
disclaimer message appeared which I will paraphrase "I do not know where
your Win2000 partition is either. If you choose to complete this command it
will probably screw things up even more." I used it with the same results as
you had.
Yes if you had a Win2000 ERD you could still install Win2000 in restore
mode and preserve your data and settings but it has to be an ERD that you
created on your system. You can not use one created on another system.
I like PartitionMagic and use it myself but it can f up too. So I
would not be overly concerned with what it now says my partition tables are.
What we want to do now is to preserve and hopfully recover the data on
your Win2000 drive so we do not want to do anything else to this drive
If I remember correctly you said yor 2000 hd was 20GB and your other
drive was 12GB so I will refer to them as 20 and 12 rather than hb1or2 or C
and D.
This is what I would do if I were in your position.
1} Disconnect 20 and set 12 as the master drive, remember to change the
jumpers(mine is cable select so it is easy to change between master and
slave).
2} Install Win98 on 12
3} When Win98 is up and running and you have installed your printer or any
other perif. you might need for your data recovery shut down.
4}Reconnect 20 as slave drive, remember the jumpers.
5} Restart your system and , fingers crossed, when Win98 boots and you open
My Computer you will have a D drive which is Win2000
6} Copy your data files from Win2000 to Win98
7} After you have copied all your data, shut down, change 20 back to master
and 12 to slave.
8} Do a new install of Win2000 on 20 use Fat32
9} When the install completes and Win2000 boots the bootloader will display
giving you the option to boot to either Win2000 or Win98.Choose Win2000
10} Once Win2000 boots go to Accessories/System Tools/Back-Up and create an
ERD
11} Install any needed programs and then import or copy your data back from
Win98.
If this situation has not completly turned you off on Mandrake, I hope it
has not, and you plan to reinstall it on your 2nd hd do not delete Win98 use
PM to reduce it in size because unless you plan to do a great deal in Linux
4 to 5GB is plenty space. Also by keeping Win98 all you need do is change
which hd boots first if you have problems again with Win2000.
I myself have not installed Mandrake on my Win2000 system I have 7.1
installed on a dual 98 system. I do plan to install 7.1 on 2000 sometime
this week it uses Grub rather than Lilo as its default boot loader and I
think Lilo might be the problem with 7.0 and 2000.
I have tried Corel Linux on my 2000 system and though I did not like the
distro itself its boot loader did install and work with Win2000.
Let me know how your problem works out and I will let you know how the
7.1 install goes.
Good luck.
Charles
P.S. I hope my instructions do not appear too simplistic. That was as much
for my benifit as yours. :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 6:32 PM
Subject: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW
> > charles:
> >
> > Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I followed someone's advice on
> > Linuxnewbie.org last night and went into the Win2k recovery console (**I
DO NOT
> > have the Win2k rescue floppy discs!!**), I ran the fixmbr and fixboot
commands
> > as suggested, and it said it rewrote the mbr ok (to C:). I then
restarted and
> > it said NTLDR not found (which I guess is the Win2k bootloader). I then
booted
> > with a Win98 boot disk to check and see if my data was still there, and
all it
> > had listed was *one* 9gig file (which is about about right in terms of
data,
> > but not 9gigs in just one file!). Also, in FDISK, it is reporting my
Win2000
> > drive as FAT12, and not FAT32! I then ran Partition Magic and it has my
Win2k
> > drive1 listed as FAT32X with a 7.8 MB "free space" partition (?), and
drive 2
> > (the Mandrake drive) says "critical error 110" partition table
corruption (or
> > something like that) When I go back into Mandrake and browse my Win2k
drive, it
> > lists about 100 small byte-sized executable files with garbled labeling
for
> > each file (i.e. "0112tgs.exe")...So, 2 years of work and 10 gigs of data
all
> > lost, or so it seems right now. Not to blame or diss Mandrake, but I
have
> > installed/used extensively Redhat 5.0, 6.0, 6.1, Suse 6.2, and 6.3 (my
last
> > distro), and this is the absolute WORST experience I have ever, ever,
had with
> > Linux. Lilo doesn't work, My CD-Rom will not work, Mandrake has no phone
> > support (SuSe and Redhat do) and now 10 gigs of data GONE. It's ironic
too,
> > because Mandrake has this "easy to use and install" perception about it,
but
> > that was by no means my experience with this product. At any rate, I'd
like to
> > thank the people that have helped out.
> >
> > Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >
> > > Lance
> > > No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his advise for repairing
your
> > > MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to restore your MBR or
any
> > > part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk(not the
set of
> > > 4 install disk, but a Rescue disk you made in Win2000). If you boot to
your
> > > Install CD without using the Rescue disk the installer Will Not be
able to
> > > find your existing Win2000 partition and you will not be able to do a
> > > restore install only a new install. This has happened to me in Win2000
so I
> > > have first hand knowledge of what I am saying.
> > > If you do not have a Rescue disk you will not be able to repair the
MBR.
> > > If you have data in Win2000 that you need to save the only way that I
can
> > > think of that would work is install either Win2000 or Win98 to your
2nd hd.
> > > and then copy the data to it.
> > > I had no data to lose so I did a new install of Win2000 and the
first
> > > thing I did afterwards was create a rescue disk.
> > >
> > > Charles
> > >
>
>
>
