ARGHH!!!!!!!!! This sounds like what I needed. Unfortunately, I gave up last night and reinstalled Win2k. I spent some time this morning going through and reinstalling applications, mostly games(what else is Windows good for). Luckily, I use 'C:' for the OS only. Just about everything else is on other partitions which didn't seem to be affected by the move. I'll file this way in case I fsck up again.
Thanks for help. I should have waited longer before starting over. Ken On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 23:37, Joshua Bedick wrote: > Hello Ken, > > Try the following - please make sure you have a lilo/grub boot disk as this > may cause problems. > Start the recovery console. > Type the Admin password. > Type "Fixboot [drive]:" where [drive] is the drive letter of your windows > partition, for example c or d. > Type exit > > Try it now. > > Fixboot writes a new Windows boot sector on the boot partition. > You could also try FIXMBR but that will most likely frag lilo/grub as it > rewrites the MBR. > > If neither of those work make sure your boot.ini file (root of the win2k > partition) is pointing to the correct drive/partition combination for > windows. You can actually add random entries until you get it right. > Remember that win2k treats all Primary partitions as occurring first and > Extended/Logical ones last. So if you had a hard drive with 1 primary, one > extended and one logical in the extended then the primary would be 1 and the > logical would be 2. Say win2k is installed on the logical drive. If there > is space left on the drive and you create a new primary partition then the > order changes. The first primary created is still one, but the second > primary is now 2, with the logical partition becoming 3. If boot.ini is not > changed to reflect that then windows won't boot. If you need to see how > win2k is looking at the partitions so you can modify the ini file type > DISKPART. It's basically a M$ version of fdisk. Let me know if you have > any questions. > > Oh, I'm a windows sys admin converting to linux. > > Take care, > > Joshua > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>start original > From: Ken Mink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yes, I'm asking a Windows question to a LUG, but there are plenty of > folks here that deal with both sides of the force. Also, my problem > involves Linux, sort of. > I upgraded the HD on my dual boot(win2k/rh8) desktop. See, it involves > Linux. I did a file based copy of each partition from the old drive to > the new one. Everything copied fine and once I got grub installed, RH8 > has been running fine. Today I tried to boot to win2k and got a message > that it was an invalid system disk. I think all of the win2k files are > there and on the same partition (hda1) that win2k was on before the > transfer. It's a FAT32 partition. I'm pretty sure I need the Win2k > equivalent of 'SYS C:' or maybe 'FORMAT /MBR'. More likely the former. I > can get the repair console up on the non-booting installation, but I'm > M$ clueless. I have no idea what to do once I'm at the command line. Any > ideas? > Oh yeah. I can't go back to the original drive. It's already in my MAC > and reformatted. > Thanks, > Ken > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>end original > > > Joshua Bedick, MCSE > Integrated Technology, Inc. > 919-630-3303 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
