Re: Linux wiped out my Windows

From: Marc Schwartz (MSchwartz_at_mn.rr.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 19:18:32 -0500

Roy Starkey wrote:
> I tried booting the Windows Emergency Repair Disk and it says:
>
> The Emergency Repair Disk is not startable.
> Repairing a damaged Windows NT installation is an option
> available at the beginning of Windows NT setup.
>
> So I booted the Setup diskettes and selected repair but it can't seem to
> find any of the files on the setup CDROM. I think that it's not able to
> access the CDROM.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not able to boot from CDROM. To install Linux I used a
> grub image on diskette to get to a vmlinuz image I copied to a Windows
> partition which was then able to install from CDROM.

Ack. Sorry, I forgot that you had indicated NT and not XP.

It may be that the NT set up disk and installation process requires the
CD driver to be loaded and that part of the process does not occur when
attempting the repair, as opposed to a fresh install.

It seems to me that there "should be" a workaround that would enable
access to the CD in this NT repair scenario. You might want to check the
Windows groups or do a google search for help here, since this is a
Windows specific issue. Surely someone has come across this same
situation before.

You might even want to post to the main fedora e-mail list to expose
your query and current experiences regarding your attempts to a more
targeted audience, where there will be others who can offer some
guidance on workarounds based upon their own experiences.

I am at a loss at this point to suggest further approaches short of a
full Windows reinstall, which you can yet hopefully avoid.

Marc

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