Re: Help - I'm in a soup !!
From: m.marien (mm)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:31:46 -0600
"Mike U." <nunya@business.com> wrote in message
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> And if that deosn't work, just boot from your windows CD and restore the
> master boot record. Once you get windows back up and running you can
> then reinstall Linux.
>
Not likely. Windows will work fine once he gets it to boot, but once the
drive is converted to a dynamic disk there is no way to convert it back
without repartitioning. So it's reinstall everything, including windows.
>
>
> Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:07:24 +0000, n wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi Folks,
> >>You can tell by the subject that I'm a newbie. Please help to get my a**
out
> >>of this.
> >>
> >>I had redhat 7.0 on a pc and it had a grub loader installed on it. There
is
> >>only one disk in the pc. It had a partition on which I had Windows 2000
> >>installed. With Win 2k running, I changed the disk type to dynamic from
> >>basic which makes some changes in ALL partitions (including non-ntfs
> >>partitions (stupid!). Now the grub loader cannot find the config file or
> >>even the boot partition. So when I start the machine grub loads and
waits at
> >>the grub> prompt.
> >>
> >>I absolutely need to get into Windows. I have all my stuff on linux
backed
> >>up and don't mind having to reinstall it if I have to.
> >>
> >>Is there a way I can bypass grub while starting up and go straight to
> >>windows ? or can I fix grub to start up normally.
> >>Gosh I have to get into Windows or my job is on the line here.
> >>
> >>I don't remember the linux device names.
> >
> > I really have no idea what the "basic partitions" did to your disk,
> > but to start windows, try:
> > chainloader +1
> > boot
> > .. or
> > root (hd0,0)
> > chainloader +1
> > boot
> >
> > (replace the last 0 in hd0,0 with the partition number of windows if it
> > isn't the first(0))
> > Alternativly, get a dos floppy disk and do
> > fdisk /mbr
> > (wipes off grub.)
> >
> >
>
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