Dual boot laptop problem

[Ronald I. Nutter]

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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