[RHCE] Windows 2k/2k3 won't boot <==Mandrake 9.2/10.1 Official

[Tom Woods]

I'm sure this doesn't matter to you anymore, but I'm going through the 
list and thought I'd go ahead and answer it for archival purposes...

There are a couple of solutions that I know of...

1) Boot using a MS DOS 6.22 or later (ie Win95/98) floppy with fdisk.com 
(or fdisk.exe) on it.
type fdisk /mbr at the command prompt and reboot.

2) Boot, using a Windows 2000 or XP CD, into the recovery console (see 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307654 for more 
info on what the recovery console can do)
type fixmbr at the command prompt and reboot
Note: see 
http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/ch07s05.html 
for even more info on MBR restoration. The link is a Novell/Suse link, 
but it will work fine regardless of which flavor of linux you have 
installed. It also doesn't matter if you are booting with lilo or grub, 
this fix should set you up.

Tom Woods



Navneet Choudhary wrote:

>  
>Hi list,
>
>I am using Mandrake 10.1 Official on multiboot system.
>
>
>After installing Mandrake 9.2 (yes 9.2 NOT 10.1) on un-partitioned space. Windows stop booting.
>
>Since as per default GRUB setting, it should show non *Linux OS also in Boot menu.
>But, here it is not showing any other OS.
>
>NOTE: Boot loader might be installed on MBR (instead of first non windows partition)?
>
>     So, I booted to Linux & can view non-Linux partition being mounted as below:
>
>#df-h
>
>/dev/hda1 1G   4.7G  11G  31%  /mnt/win_c
>/dev/hda5 5.1G 4.6G 418M 92%  /mnt/win_d
>
>and 
>
>#fdisk -l
>
>Disk /dev/hda:40.0 GB,40020664320
>16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
>Units= cylinder of 1008 * 512= 516096 bytes
>
>Device     Boot Start  End   Blocks   Id System
>
>/dev/hda1  *     1     31206 15727603+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>/dev/hda2       31206  77545 23355045  f W95Ext'd(LBA)
>/dev/hda5       31206  41613 524519    7 HPFS/NTFS
>/dev/hda6       41613  64700 11534638+ 6 FAT16
>/dev/hda7       64500  64708 1052738  83 Linux
>/dev/hda8       64709  65729 514552   82 Swap 
>/dev/hda9       65730  69802 2052760  83 Linux
>/dev/hda10      69803  77545 3902446+ 83 Linux  
>
>NOTE: /dev/hda1 Windows 2000 Professional
>            /dev/hda5 Windows 2003 Server
>            /dev/hda6  MISC (FAT16)
>
>Since, I am not getting any windows listing in my Grub boot menu.Therefore,i have manually added windows entry in it.
>
>Now, 
>1)when I choose windows 2000 at boot time:
>
>ERROR o/p:-
>Root(hda0,1)
>Filesystem type unknown,partition oxf
>Chainloader +1
>
>2)When I choose windows 2003
>Root(hda0,5)
>Filesystem type unknown,partition ox6
>Chainloader +1
>
>
>Lastly I tried installing Mandrake 10.1 Official…………Once again it could not able to recognise windows OS installed on my Hard Disk.
>
>Now, please suggest how to revert back to my original configuration.
>Running Windows OS without formatting. Since it contains lots many important installation that can’t be ported without running original Windows.
>
>
>
>Thanks and Regards.
>Navneet Choudhary
>
>
>
>
>
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