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Here is what happened, I am lost and would really appreciate ANY help.
1) I have a windows xp professional machine and wanted to add a linux to it
2) I added a second hard drive and installed Fedora Core 2 on it
3) Fedora installed fine, and worked, but when I rebooted it could not start X-windows because some kind of incompatibility with using a generic VESA driver with my Radeon 9600 pro
4) I still had my trusty windows partition. So I chose to boot into my windows system through the grub bootloader. The computer would just restart without even apparently attempting to enter windows
5) At this point, I used a boot disk and did an "fdisk /mbr" Rebooted, and got an "no operating system" message
6) Inserted the windows XP cd and built a new MBR from the recovery tools and got a "error loading operating system" message
7) Next, I tried to recover using the windows XP cd and had no luck
I have very important files on that hard drive that I would like to save. If anyone knows how I can save those files without copying them individually to floppy disks I would really appreciate it.
Thank you
1) I have a windows xp professional machine and wanted to add a linux to it
2) I added a second hard drive and installed Fedora Core 2 on it
3) Fedora installed fine, and worked, but when I rebooted it could not start X-windows because some kind of incompatibility with using a generic VESA driver with my Radeon 9600 pro
4) I still had my trusty windows partition. So I chose to boot into my windows system through the grub bootloader. The computer would just restart without even apparently attempting to enter windows
5) At this point, I used a boot disk and did an "fdisk /mbr" Rebooted, and got an "no operating system" message
6) Inserted the windows XP cd and built a new MBR from the recovery tools and got a "error loading operating system" message
7) Next, I tried to recover using the windows XP cd and had no luck
I have very important files on that hard drive that I would like to save. If anyone knows how I can save those files without copying them individually to floppy disks I would really appreciate it.
Thank you