can't boot

Mike Chalmers mikechalmers70 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 00:42:01 UTC 2007


On 2/13/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Mike Chalmers wrote:
> > I have a problem where I deleted my linux partitions and turned them
> > into NTFS using
> > Partition Magic and now I get a grub command line with numerous
> > options when I boot and I
> > don't know how to get to Windows. I thought that I could delete my
> > Linux partition, so that I could free up more space on Windows but it
> > didn't work right. I really need to get to Windows.
> >
> If you have a bootable XP disk, boot to the Recovery Console and run
> fixmbr. You may find http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058 helpful.
>
> The problem is that when you deleted the Linux partitions, you also
> deleted part of Grub...
>
> Mikkel
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Thanks alot, I will give it a try. I forget how to boot to the
recovery console, though. Don't I press something like F6 when the
time is right.




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