linux and windows 2000

[pylorns]

I installed on a 2nd hdd a copy of mandrake 8, unfortunalty it does not like my matrox video card and will not work - Now I am wanting to pull that "extra" drive out and no longer dual boot - the only problem is I get boot error when i pull that drive off - meaning of course that the master boot record is pointing to the drive with linux on it. If i pull that drive off and then do fdisk /mbr will this fix the problem and will windows find the boot record on the next boot up? Or will i just be killing th boot record and screwing myself?

 

[SUOrangeman]

boot into Linux (with both drives attached).

Run 'lilo -u' as root user. This cleans up the boot sector to it's pre-Linux state.

Hopefully, that will be all for Windows to behave sanely once again.

For the record, I doubht 'fidsk /mbr' will work for Win2K, especially if NTFS was used. But, I could be wrong. It may just be easier to repair the boot sector by booting with the Win2K CD.

-SUO

 

[pylorns]

Well I talked to a guy I worked with, I think I can run fdisk and then do a repair on win2k and fix it.

 

[Noriaki]

fdisk /mbr is the DOS fix

I think you have to run Win2k setup to get the Win2k equivilant.

 

[MGMorden]

fdisk /mbr puts on the generic ms bootloader. you can use it to boot win2k if lilo gets corrupted (I just did this earlier today).