Re: WinXP and Mandrake 9.0 - serious harddisk problems!!
From: Wolfgang Fischer (Wolfgang_.fischer_at_freenet.de)
Date: 07/09/03
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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:35:37 +0200
On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 06:20:38 -0700, `G4 wrote:
> hi, my system currently has 2 harddisks:
>
> a 40GB Maxtor DiamondMax ATA/133 as primary master
> a 13GB seagate ata/66 as primary slave.
>
> to begin with i had a happy installation of XP on the master harddisk,
> the problem arose when i installed Mandrake 9.0 Linux onto the 13gb
> drive, all went well until it installed the bootloader onto the
> windows drive. when the computer rebooted after installing linux, the
> boot loader asked me if i wanted to boot linux or "NT". since i had
> some stuff to do with Windows i booted NT, and it showed me the
> Windows XP splash screen. unfortuneately instead of loading explorer,
> it just stopped and gave me a BSOD. knowing windows, i decided just to
> reboot and hope that it would just go away. after rebooting, the BIOS
> does not detect the harddisk at all. i have about 4gb of stuff on the
> harddisk that i would like to backup, but the problem is, without the
> bootloader, i cant even get into Linux to try and resurrect the
> problem. can someone suggest anything to get the BIOS to recognise the
> drive again?
Boot from a bootable cdrom (e. g. KNOPPIX) and back up the data. If you
have a way to boot linux, the BIOS doesn't have to recognice the disks.
However, this might also be a hardware problem.
>
> it isnt critical that i get my 4gb of data back, but it would save a
> lot of hassle.
>
> thanks,
> marc
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