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Old May 1st, 2003 Top | #1
 
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I have windows XP on my master Hard drive, I then installed Redhat 9 on a separate slave hard drive, and I have them duel booting. I should have made a copy of my windows MBR but I didn’t. If I decide to get rid of Linux how do I repair the windows MBR
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boot from a bootdisk (CD, floppy etc...)
then type fdisk /mbr
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XP recovery console would be better, you can be sure it will give the boot partition back to your WindowsXP.

Just type FIXMBR from within the console.

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Originally posted by Rootz
XP recovery console would be better, you can be sure it will give the boot partition back to your WindowsXP.

Just type FIXMBR from within the console.

Good luck!
yeah this is also one of the solution... not risky than "fdisk /mbr"
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FIXMBR from repair console worked a treat
Amd XP 3000 333 fsb
MSI Geforce FX 5900
1024 Mb 2700 DDR
Asus A7V8X Via KT400 Mobo
Creative 1024 live sound card
LG DVD Burner
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