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Yesterday, I installed Windows 2000 over my installation of Windows 98. It was only after this that I found out that installing such a program would delete the master boot ...
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- 11-30-2004 #1Just Joined!
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Master boot record
Yesterday, I installed Windows 2000 over my installation of Windows 98. It was only after this that I found out that installing such a program would delete the master boot record. I can't figure out how to repair this problem so that I can boot into more than just Windows. I have it to play games, but I have Linux for everything else. Please help me.
- 11-30-2004 #2Linux Guru
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many distro have a "rescue" feature, that will repair the mbr
- 12-01-2004 #3Just Joined!
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Do you mean Windows or Linux? Because by only being able to boot into Windows, I mean that it bypasses any selection screen. It just starts Windows automatically.
I know that one thing I could do would be to reinstall Linux, and continue from there, but I have a lot of stuff saved that I don't want deleted.
- 12-01-2004 #4Linux Engineer
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He's trying to tell you that your distro's install CD should have a rescue mode that will reinstall the bootloader, or drop you to a console so that you can do it yourself.
If you had searched the forums, you would have found a tutorial covering this *exact* issue. It is here.Their code will be beautiful, even if their desks are buried in 3 feet of crap. - esr
- 12-01-2004 #5Just Joined!
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Thank you for telling me. At the time I posted my problem, I didn't have time to search. Had I known that was there, I would have just read it.
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