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Help, Lost WindowsXP when installing Linux Dual Boot

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mamisano

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Yeah, I know, I'm a noob 🙂

I installed a copy of RH6.0 we had lying around the office on my XP machine. It asked me where to install the LILO, and I chose /dev/fd0 and thats where it put it...honest. Then when I removed the floppy, it still booted right into Linux.

How do I get it to boot back into WinXP? The partitions are still there, the XP Boot partition is set to Active, but still no go. Even when I hit tab at the boot: screen, it only shows Linux.

HELP!! 😀

 
do you have a dos bootdisk or something? or a bootable windows cd? if so boot from that and just type in fdisk /mbr. It will get rid of anything in your master boot record, and it wont hurt anything, so dont worry, i just did it the other day
 
If you still want to keep your existing Linux install then you just need to add XP to LILO config or whatever bootmananger you used. If you want to restore the XP bootloader then boot from the XP cd and run the console from the repair option and type fix/mbr from the console line command prompt.

Rain
 
... Just to elaborate... Use your windows XP cd - boot with it. Then select the recovery console.

Once you're in the console, you won't be able to use fdisk/mbr - you'll have to type in fixmbr. This is only because the recovery console doesn't use dos
 


<< If you still want to keep your existing Linux install then you just need to add XP to LILO config or whatever bootmananger you used. If you want to restore the XP bootloader then boot from the XP cd and run the console from the repair option and type fix/mbr from the console line command prompt.

Rain >>



How do I modify LILO? 🙂
 
Boot into Linux, log in as root, run

lilo -u

Windows should be back upon reboot and the floppy should still work.

-SUO
 
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