Dual boot laptop problem

From: Barry Gamblin (bgamblin_at_hao.ucar.edu)
Date: 04/08/05

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    I have (or should I say had) a laptop (Thinkpad T23) that
    dual boots Redhat 9 and Windows 2000. I needed to upgrade the
    Windows side to Windows XP. The upgrade didn't go well so a
    clean install of Windows was needed. I selected the Windows
    partition during the setup process and told it to format
    the partition. The install evidently wiped out the partition
    table, and I forgot to save a copy of the boot.ini file, so
    now I cannot get to my linux install. msconfig does not give
    me the option to edit the boot.ini file. In fact I cannot even
    find the real file, just a backup file. I think the linux
    partition is still there, but I do not know how to get to it.

    Is there any way to get the partition table back so I can boot
    into the linux side?

    Thanks, Barry 

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