On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 22:00, Trevor Lango wrote: > 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.
Oddly, my computer did not come with a Windows XP CD. Blast. I had to track down a Windows 98 CD (not even 2nd edition!) and run fdisk from the command line. -- 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
