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best way to restore MBR? (mult-boot PC)

 
 
Nomen Nescio
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      16th Jul 2010
I have multiboot system with XP and 2000 on first hard drive.
Second hard drive has Fedora linux. This was working fine
with a few versions of Fedora: it boots and I choose Fedora
or "other" which then goes to NTLDR to choose which Windows.
Now after upgrading Fedora, when I select other, I get
+||C
on the top left corner of screen and it does not boot.
I booted the XP CD and selected recovery console. I tried
the FIXBOOT command - that did not solve problem.
If I try FIXMBR I get the warning message that I might
stuff up the disk, so I did not proceed.
I can boot from a floppy which has boot.ini pointing to
the XP installation on C: then I can see that my 3
Windows partions are okay, it is just no boot.


 
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      16th Jul 2010
On 07/15/2010 09:59 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> I have multiboot system with XP and 2000 on first hard drive.
> Second hard drive has Fedora linux. This was working fine
> with a few versions of Fedora: it boots and I choose Fedora
> or "other" which then goes to NTLDR to choose which Windows.
> Now after upgrading Fedora, when I select other, I get
> +||C
> on the top left corner of screen and it does not boot.
> I booted the XP CD and selected recovery console. I tried
> the FIXBOOT command - that did not solve problem.
> If I try FIXMBR I get the warning message that I might
> stuff up the disk, so I did not proceed.
> I can boot from a floppy which has boot.ini pointing to
> the XP installation on C: then I can see that my 3
> Windows partions are okay, it is just no boot.
>
>




just go back and run fixmbr
 
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