Restore a Windows' entry on a dual-boot machine

[sh_roohani]

Hi,

I have a Mandrake 9.0 and a Windows 98 SE on my machine. Yesterday, I tried to reinstall my Linux. While installing LILO I made a mistake and removed the entry for my Windows from LILO boot menu. Now, choosing Windows from the boot menu, results in the following lines:

Loading Windows...
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01

After a few lines of 01s it stops and nothing more.

Using rescue option and reinstalling LILO did not help. Is there any way to recover the Windows which I have on my machine, but cannot load it (For example, using another boot loader or something like that)?

Shahram

[Opnosforatou]

Use a Win98 Bootdisk and type : fdisk /mbr at the dos prompt.
This will restore the original MBR from M$.
Then you use a linux emergency disk to boot up you linux and reinstall lilo, or better: Grub on the MBR.

Or

Do you know the original lines from your lilo.conf?
The line :
other = /dev/hda1
label = Windows

should work, IF /dev/hda1 is you windows partition.
To check, bootup linux, login as root ; fdisk /dev/hdX, where X is the drive with windows on it... In case of 1 disk it's : /dev/hda
use : p
to display partition information, Could be that /dev/hda1 is you windows (vfat or fat32) partition.
type : q to quit the program, make adjustments to the lilo config as needed,
Rewrite lilo by calling: lillo
and then reboot.