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SuSe may have deleted windoze
Name: EM386N Date: February 2, 2005 at 10:12:03 Pacific OS: SuSe Linux CPU/Ram: 1.6 MHZ AMD Atholon
Comment:
I got a problem linux, the boot loader shows that windoze xp is avaliable but when i try to load it up, the machine just hangs with a black screen saying
Name: hal8000 Date: February 2, 2005 at 12:24:34 Pacific
Reply:
First boot into Suse make a boot floppy and reboot SuSe with it. Then boot into XP with your XP cd and go to recovery console and type fdisk /fixmbr
Reboot and only XP should load. Insert suse floppy, boot into suse then reinstall grub into the mbr (via yast) that should fix it.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: February 6, 2005 at 09:50:36 Pacific
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fdisk /fixmbr wont work. For win95/98/me you use "fdisk /mbr" with a startup disk. With win2000/xp you boot into the recovery console using the installation CD and type fixmbr (fixboot is also a command but as I don't use windoze I don't really know what it does.) If reinstalling grub does not work, check your grub.conf file and make sure your windoze entry looks something like: rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1
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