Dan said:
> Get your hands on a Windows 98/95 boot floppy disk. Boot from the floppy
> disk. At the "A:\" prompt, type the following exactly as shown;
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> Make sure there's a space between "fdisk" and the forward slash "/" !
>
> Reboot your system. NT will fire up no problem.
I have read some reports from other newsgroups that this can cause
problems with WinNT.
Anybody able to verify that using a Win98 book floppy, and fdisk /mbr
will work.
Actually, I disappointed that the Mandrake install did not give me
the option to include NT in the GRUB. Or at least some very strong
warnings in the setup programs or warnings in the documentation about
setting up dual boot systems with NT in the primary partition.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward Stow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:15 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Lost NT Partition
>
>
> > I have unsuccessfully tried to install Mandrake 7.2. onto my
> > machine that had NT4 installed on a NTFS formated primary
> > partition.
> >
> > Problems:
> > * Mandrake 7.2 installed GRUB but does not give me any option to
> > boot to NT.
> > * Selecting the Linux option in GRUB - Linux hangs during bootup.
> > * (Also during installation I tried but could not create a
> > bootdisk.)
> >
> > Question:
> > How can I boot into my NT partition? I don't care if the
> > Mandrake installation is lost.
> >
> > Edward Stow
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>
Edward Stow email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles Sturt University phone 02 6933 2387
Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678 fax 02 6933 2733
Australia
