Suse Linux overwriting XP boot

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Dirk Bruere

Two HDDs, one with XP and other with Linux.
I appear to have overwritten the boot stuff on the XP with Linux code.
How can I recover?

Dirk
 
Dirk Bruere said:
Two HDDs, one with XP and other with Linux.
I appear to have overwritten the boot stuff on the XP with Linux code.
How can I recover?

Dirk
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You can boot the machine with your WinXP CD, select Repair
when prompted, then select Recovery Console. Now type this
command: fixmbr.

Alternatively you can boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk
from www.bootdisk.com, then run this command: fdisk /mbr.
 
Pegasus said:
You can boot the machine with your WinXP CD, select Repair
when prompted, then select Recovery Console. Now type this
command: fixmbr.
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Tried that, but it didn't seem to work
Does it assume that it is HDD0?
XP is on HDD1, and Linux on HDD0
It did seem to screw up linux boot...

Dirk
 
Dirk Bruere said:
Tried that, but it didn't seem to work
Does it assume that it is HDD0?
XP is on HDD1, and Linux on HDD0
It did seem to screw up linux boot...

Dirk
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At boot time the BIOS passes control to the MBR located on
the primary master disk. In the case of Windows, the MBR
code will then execute some boot program located in the boot
sector of tha active partition of the primary master disk. That
code in turn will launch Windows from whereever it may be.

You appear to have restored the MBR but you also appear
to have disturbed some of the other links in the boot chain.
Your report "it didn't seem to work" does not contain sufficient
details to indicate which link is missing. Please report
***verbatim*** what you see on the screen!
 
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