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well i think i messed up.. i had win98, winxp & mandrake 10 on & working well & then desided to remove mandrake.. it had booted to the lilo screen ...
  1. 03-20-2005 #1
    pperk97
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    well i think i messed up.. i had win98, winxp & mandrake 10 on & working well & then desided to remove mandrake.. it had booted to the lilo screen then to winxp multiboot screen.. i used partition magic to remove the mandrake partitions & resize the windows ones.. it kept the lilo screen which i thought was odd til this morning.. now it come up to half a screen of 99 's and stops... help...????
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    OK, LiLo is still on your mbr, put the XP install cd in the drive and press r to get to the recovery console, and type
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    fixmbr
    this will alow you to boot XP, and edit the boot.ini file to boot both Win98 and XP.

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