Boot problems

[Tabletop Expert]

I have a problem with my boot sector I think, and I don't know how to fix it 🙁 . I had xp home installed on hda and I installed red hat 9 on hdb. I decided to install grub boot loaded because I didn't have a boot loader. It worked fine my first two reboots but then it said hard drive error. I reinstalled linux and again it worked fine for the first two reboots and then again said hard drive error. I have since deleted linux from hdb and want to get rid of grub boot loader as I can't restart my computer unless I install linux again.

I am being a vague here but I hope you can see where I am coming from.

Thanks for any help 🙂

 

[sboulema]

fdisk /mbr will do the trick i guess, or use the xp recovery console and use the fixboot (not sure) command.

 

[Reg]

You will need to boot to your Windows XP CD and lauch recovery console. From there, run the following commands:

fixmbr
fixboot

That's it. DO NOT RUN FDISK/MBR as that will make a standard FAT bootsector (Windows 2000/XP has a special NTLDR bootsector).

 

[Tabletop Expert]

You will need to boot to your Windows XP CD and lauch recovery console. From there, run the following commands:

fixmbr
fixboot

That's it. DO NOT RUN FDISK/MBR as that will make a standard FAT bootsector (Windows 2000/XP has a special NTLDR bootsector).

Cheers thanks alot I dont have a xp home disk but I can boot recovery console from the hard drive

 

[j79zlr]

For the record, Fixboot replaces the bootfiles, NTLDR and such, 'fdisk /mbr' or 'fixmbr' only resets the mbr back to the HD's (not operating systems) original state. No version of Windows installs it's bootloader in the mbr only the active Windows system partition.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Something else to try>

go to run --> type msconfig

click boot.ini tab and click "Check boot paths"