Is this bug 1566 or another problem?

[ulrich steffens]

if you boot off your windows cd, you can than use one of the consoles
win provides. its either fixmbr or fdisk ... try it out.
if you fix the mbr, under NORMAL circumstances no partions or whatever
getting wiped out. its just that win gets his space in the mbr back.
ah and this advice comes *** WITHOUT WARRANTY ***

;)

ulrich

Am Freitag, den 21.01.2005, 15:23 -0500 schrieb hemebond:
> Argh. That's what I get for hijacking a thread. My setup isn't exactly
> the same as the thread starter. I have a standard IDE drive, with the
> Windows partition as the first. Before setting the drive to "assisted
> LBA" (the closest I have to LBA), my system would just reboot when I
> tried to boot Windows. Now (after changing to "assisted LBA"), GRUB
> echoes the Windows Boot commands along with the 0x7 error. I've tried
> the sfdisk suggestion; I get a boundary error from parted and I've
> tried to reinstall Windows over the top of itself.
> 
> I've just created a GRUB boot floppy, is there a (safe) way to make
> Windows install itself all over the MBR? When first researching this
> problem, I read that using fdisk /mbr or fixboot would actually destroy
> the partitions and require me to format. That can not happen. This is a
> work PC.
> 
> 
> -- 
> hemebond
> 
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- ulrich
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