[Preston] Fedora Core3

[Dougie Nisbet]

Microsoft Windows can be very picky about where it's installed. If it's 
still there on a partition I'd have thought you'd be able to access it 
somehow. How about booting from the XP install CD and doing a 'Repair' 
(never tried it myself) or booting from a, say, Knoppix CD and then 
running Lilo or Grub to recreate the MBR, or as Phil suggests, trying 
FDISK /MBR from a DOS boot.

I've got a multi-boot system (Debian, XP) and knowing how touchy 
Microsoft can be I took some advice from the UK linux newsgroup that I 
found useful. Don't know if it'd be any help but you can find it at 
http://snipurl.com/bze7

Good Luck!



Granville Cousins wrote:

>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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