[Wolves] Hello - first post from me !

[Peter Cannon]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 21:14, Tim Childe wrote:

> 2 HDD drives
>
> 1 paritioned C,D,E for windows
> 2 Ubuntu partitioned however it installed.
>
> First everything worked OK.

Ah I see the light.

Its a lazy fix (I'm famous for it ask Sparkes), but it will work, disconnect 
the IDE lead for the Ubantu drive (2) then run fdisk /mbr and do an overlay 
installation this should give you back the Windows bit.

I'm not an expert and don't know the the technical boot terms but I think I 
know whats going on. Based on experiences with Red Hat and the three internal 
HDD's I have in my machine I bet grub is installing on drive 2 therefore 
fdisk /mbr will have no effect however if you disconnect drive 2 it will not 
boot either this is because Grub writes to drive 1's boot sector, Quote:

"Hello mush Grub here the info you want for booting this system mate is on 
drive 2"  

So of course once fdisk /mbr is invoked your PC is now both blind and 
speechless.

So, disconnect that lead (drive 2), run fdisk /mbr on disk 1 (C) I don't think 
it will boot but give it a try stick your Windows disk in and do an overlay 
install with disk 2 still disconnected, shut down, reconnect the disk 2 and 
boot up again.

From here its up to you what course to take, personally I'd wipe disk 2 and 
start again.

Good Luck.

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Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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