Dual boot laptop problem

[Jason Brown]

Once he reinstalled Windows it wrote over the top of the MBR. 
Shouldnt he be looking there first since grub/lilo was actually taking
care of the boot process.

On 4/8/05, Suraj Chandrasekaran <csuraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Actually, the boot.ini file is hidden and is not visible until you go
> to Tools>Folder Options and select Show hidden files and folders and
> also, and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files". Now, you
> should see the boot.ini file in the root windows partition, most
> probably C: drive.
> 
> Hope this helps. Give me an update if it does or doesnt work.
> 
> -Suraj
> 
> On Apr 8, 2005 10:04 AM, Ronald I. Nutter
> <ronald_nutter at georgetowncollege.edu> wrote:
> > Have you tried using one of the cd bootable linux distros such as
> > Knoppix ?  That might do what you are looking for.
> >
> > A thought,
> >
> > Ron
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Barry Gamblin
> > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:33 AM
> > To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Dual boot laptop problem
> >
> > I have (or should I say had) a laptop (Thinkpad T23) that
> > dual boots Redhat 9 and Windows 2000. I needed to upgrade the Windows
> > side to Windows XP. The upgrade didn't go well so a
> > clean install of Windows was needed. I selected the Windows partition
> > during the setup process and told it to format the partition. The
> > install evidently wiped out the partition table, and I forgot to save a
> > copy of the boot.ini file, so now I cannot get to my linux install.
> > msconfig does not give me the option to edit the boot.ini file. In fact
> > I cannot even find the real file, just a backup file. I think the linux
> > partition is still there, but I do not know how to get to it.
> >
> > Is there any way to get the partition table back so I can boot into the
> > linux side?
> >
> > Thanks, Barry
> >
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