Re: XP won't boot after knoppix 3.4 hdinstall

Bill Eastman escribió:

> Klaus Knopper wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:47:59AM -0400, Joris Huizer wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I don't know why -- it didn't work.
>>> I gave that command and when I now boot the computer it does the 
>>> usual hardware startup stuff, and then says,
>>>
>>> CDROM:
>>> MBR
>>>
>>> (as if it first "thinks" it should read a cdrom, maybe that's 
>>> standard anyway) but then it just says MBR, and nothing happens.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> The obvious explanation would be that there is no more bootable
>> partition on your harddisk, therefore the MBR bootloader stops and waits
>> for instructions. Could it be that, when using Fabian's installer, you
>> DELETED your Windows partition instead of just RESIZING it and adding a
>> swap and Linux data partition on the empty space?
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Can you tell me how to solve this?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> If the above is true, your Windows partition is gone for good.
>>
>> Do you still see the content of the (ex-)Windows partition when booting
>> Knoppix from CD?
>>
>> Regards
>> -Klaus Knopper
>>  
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> If he has a Windows 98 boot floppy, he could fdisk /mbr.  Before doing 
> that, I suggest making a linux boot floppy. Then when he wants linux, 
> just boot from the floppy.
>
Good idea. But I love the USB Keydrive 
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/keydrive ) to use for this function ( it 
's more comfortable to use than a single floppy).

Regards.