Okay, here is what you need/should do: Boot off of a Windows XP Install CD and select the "Recovery Console" feature. When you are eventually at a command prompt, typing "fdisk /mbr" is necessary to overwrite LILO BUT will not be good enough for Windows XP...!!! XP uses additional files for booting besides the code residing in the MBR so it is essential that you ALSO type "bootcfg /rebuild" (or bootcfg with another valid option such as "/add" or "/default" or whatever you feel you need to do...) The combination of rebuilding the MBR and restoring/re-writing XP's boot files should make the Win OS boot just fine.
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:vox-tech- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard S. Crawford >Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 20:00 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual- >bootsystem) > >Well, now the damned computer won't even start. I turn it on, and it >just runs 10 across the screen until I turn it off. There is no floppy >drive on this computer, so a boot disk won't work; and I'm afraid I >couldn't quite figure out how to use Knoppix to deal with LILO (what >*is* the root password for a computer running Knoppix, anyway?). > >Am I the only one here who hates computers? ;-) > >-- >Slainte, >Richard S. Crawford >AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 >Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com >http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com >"It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential >is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery >_______________________________________________ >vox-tech mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
