[Wolves] Deleted dual boot partition

Ron Wellsted ron at wellsted.org.uk
Thu Jul 27 20:02:50 BST 2006


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Wayne Morris wrote:
> I had a machine set up to dual boot Xp and Redhat, decided I didn't need
> the Redhat partition
> ands used Partition magic to resize the partitions to make 1 big one.
> 
> Unsurprisingly the machine won't boot from HDD, saying only 'GRUB'.
> 
> Any easy way around this, other than reinstalling windows?

If you have an old MS-DOS/Win9X boot floppy, boot off of that, press F5
as soon as it starts and then type "fdisk /mbr".


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Ron Wellsted
ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
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