[Preston] Fedora Core3

[Phil Robinson]

You need to boot to a command prompt using DOS, this can be done from a boot 
floppy or bootable CD. Then type FDISK /MBR at the command prompt. This will 
restore your Master Boot Record and allow the machine to boot into windows.

:-)

Regards,

Phil Robinson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Granville Cousins" <granville at yogawithgranville.com>
To: "PLUG" <preston at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:43 PM
Subject: [Preston] Fedora Core3


> Hello PLUG,
>
> I tried to install it on my desktop PC but I'm afraid the installation
> did not go well. I had already a Fedora Core 1 installation on my
> second hard disc in the PC. I chose to Upgrade the new Fedora Core 3
> installation and after receiving notification that the installation
> was successful, when the computer rebooted it paused and would not
> complete. I retried but it failed again at the same point. So I tried
> the installation this time choosing to install a completely fresh
> installation. This also failed. I then tried to install choosing to
> install as a Server. This then gave disastrous results as the messages
> I were receiving were saying that there was no access to any of the hard
> drives. Even now on a reboot the message I get is that there is no
> operating system installed. The computer does have Windows XP installed
> in fully working order. So the state of play now is that my computer will
> not boot up into anything including Windows.
>
> I think the best option would be to completely remove any Linux
> installations from the computer and get back to just running Windows
> XP on this computer. And then proceeding possibly with Linux on a
> complexly different computer to avoid this type of thing happening
> again in the future.
>
> What do you think, and is it possible to retrieve my Windows without
> having to perform a complete system recovery which would me mean
> wiping the hard disc and loosing my data?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Granville                          mailto:granville at gcousins.wanadoo.co.uk
>
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