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Name: Dick Ryder
Date: April 28, 2002 at 12:21:06 Pacific
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I was trying to do a dual boot with win/linux. Anyways when i attempted to do this, somthing happened to the windows 2000 MBR because when it boots now, i get a PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT prompt which is a Linux related thing. With the command recovery counsel, i added NTLDR, bot.ini, and all that other crap., but no luck. The fixmbr and fixboot or bootfix, (whatever) commands didnt help either. Any ideas on fixing this without reinstalling? That .NET s--- takes toooo long to set up.



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Name: trvlr
Date: April 28, 2002 at 13:49:23 Pacific
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I've no experience with Linux but perhaps:

http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15683

courtesy of John Savills faqs at:

http://www.windows2000faq.com - installations section

will help you resolve it all?


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Name: jacko
Date: April 28, 2002 at 15:25:57 Pacific
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If you have a win98 bootdisk boot with it and type fdisk /mbr. You may have to reinstall linux after, I'm not sure.


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