[ltp] some ibm windows/linux questions

[James Knott]

David Tansey wrote:
> Matthias,
> 
> Unfortunately, I only have my IBM recovery CDs, which don't seem to
> allow getting into any sort of console.
> 
> -David
> 
> On 6/21/05, Matthias Posseldt <matthi@gmx.li> wrote:
>>On Monday 20 June 2005 21:30, David Tansey wrote:
>>>I ran grub-install /dev/hda1 by accident and can no longer
>>>boot into windows. I tried some remedies online but haven't
>>>solved anything. (The most promising one was using dd to
>>>backup the bootsector and then put in the backup boot sector
>>>into the superblock of /dev/hda1.)
>>>
>>>So I guess I need to reinstall windows. I used to be able to
>>>mount my windows partition, but even that is impossible now. I
>>>can't remember doing anything differently -- oh well.
>>Before reinstalling ... do you have a Windows CD ready? From there you
>>can boot into a recovery console which -- between others -- provides
>>two interesting commands which helped me:
>>
>>fixboot
>>fixmbr
>>
>>The former one fixes the boot sector, the latter one the MBR. The first
>>one should "delete" GRUB from /dev/hda1 while the second one would
>>remove GRUB from the MBR (interesting if you want to restore the
>>original Windows MBR, you should only need to fix the boot record of
>>your partition). See
>>
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314058
>>
>>for more information.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Matthias
>>
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You can try using a Windows rescue floppy and use the command "fdisk /mbr".