Fedora and reinstalling Windows

Arghavan Sabahi cheerfulaya at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 6 18:03:45 UTC 2006


Isn't there any other way instead of reinstalling windows to get that single partition back?
   
  
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 22:12 , Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
>This is a famous W$ problem/feature. The installation of windows 
>overwrites 
>the master boot record.
>If windows is installed first then install linux ...Then lilo or grub 
>is smart 
>enough to recognize the other operating system...windows ain't that 
>smart
>So reinstall windows using all the space also you might want to get a 
>copy of 
>UBCD
>http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
>It's not a big download 
  >On Tuesday 05 December 2006 14:59, Arghavan Sabahi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  Some time ago I installed Fedora Core 4 on my PC with your great 
help.
>> Everything was fine until when I decided to reinstall Windows XP. I
>> formated the two partitions which were for windows' use and 
reinstalled it.
>> But didn't format or make any changes to the single partition for 
Fedora.
>> Since then there is nor any sign of Fedora where it should be, just 
after
>> booting, neither even any sign of that single partition. Now that I 
need
>> that partition too and prefer to have just Windows on this PC, how 
can I
>> return it back to its former condition? Besides, since then I am 
facing
>> with error messages expressing incosistency. May it be because of 
this
>> mistake? Anyway, thank you for your ever assistance and advices.
>>   cheerfulaya

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