[Sussex] How to recover from a complete "balls up" ??

[John Crowhurst]

On Wed, April 27, 2005 20:00, John D. said:
> Well, I've managed to "do it" again!
>
> I was sorting out my new partitioning scheme, and after bining all my
> linux partitions etc, making a new fat32 formatted partition for my
> mp3's, partition magic 8 decided to reboot the system
> (Aaaarrrrrggggghhhhh Nooooooooo! or words to that effect), before I'd
> managed to put the windows bootloader back.
>
> So, after trying too see what I could do (if anything) with knoppix,
> booting my windows XP disc and trying the "fixmbr" trick in a rescue
> console, and trying to repair/replace the windows bootloader with a
> mandrake 9.1 DVD, I've had to re-install the mandrake so that I've got
> some sort of connection to the outside world.
>
> The windows now starts too boot, but it then blue screens with a
> "missing autocheck programme" message and just reboots after about 5
> seconds.
>
> Does anyone know how to get round that? i.e. repair the XP install
> without having to re-install it? So that I can get on with the task of
> doing the linux re-install (and no I haven't decided yet whether it's
> gonna be gentoo or knoppix hdd install for transition to "proper"
> debian)????

This site gives a step-by-step guide to doing a XP Repair install:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Once you have done that, you can add your boot options to the boot.ini if
you want to use the NT boot loader to load Linux.

--
John