Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

From: Anthony Liu (antonyliu2002_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/08/03

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    I have dual system on my Compaq Evo N800C laptop. The
    default is Red Hat 9, and the other one is Win XP.

    Both were working find until probably I ran fsck or
    e2fsck. I am not sure though.

    I ran /sbin/lilo and got this fatal message:

    Added Linux *
    Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid
    boot signature

    Then when I attempted to reboot the system to Win XP.
    What I saw on the top left corner of the black screen
    is this:

    Loading Windows XP
    L?

    And that's all, and it hangs there.

    I searched the Web, and found limited info about this.
     One newsgroup post seems to say that the Windows XP
    file system has been changed to dynamic disk and needs
    to be reverted to basic disk. But it only gives a
    link to microsft site which only tells you how to
    switch between basic and dynamic disk under windows
    system. Obviously, I cannot do this since I cannot
    boot to Windows at all.

    I have no problem booting to my Red Hat 9 linux
    system.

    I don't wanna reinstall everything. Any idea on how
    to fix this please? Thanks a lot.

    Antony

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