It sounds like you may just have a bootloader problem (i.e. everything is still on your harddrive, your computer just doesn't know how to boot it.) I'm actually helping someone else tonight so If you wanted to come over, I'd give you a hand. (Bring your XP disks and stuff. We'll try to restore your bootloader, and go from there.
Art Quoting Karl David Mortensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Saturday morning at the installfest, Red Hat 8.0 installed fine and worked > until the boot loader (grub) died. Then it wouldn't boot at all and the > system didn't even think there was a hard drive installed. No partitions > survived this ordeal. > > What I need to do is restore the XP partition, but I don't know how. My XP > disc, near as I can tell, wants to reformat my "Unpartitioned Space" to solve > my problems. I don't want it to because I like my data. :-) So I need to > figure out a way to restore the NTFS MBR. The only data I care about right > now is on the former NTFS partition. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Karl David Mortensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today > Only $9.95 per month! > Visit www.juno.com > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
