[wellylug] Screwed up laptop :(

[Jamie Dobbs]

True, it was user error - I screwed up :/
I am now in the process of rebuilding the laptop, this time using FAT32
for the XP partition as at least then I know I shouldn't screw anything
up easily.
It seems that I did clobber the NTFS partition totally but at least the
laptop is only a couple of days old so doesn't have any data on it as
yet!
Another case of living and learning I suppose :D

- Jamie -


On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 11:45, postie wrote:
> Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> 
> >In trying to install Gentoo on my laptop I have completely borked my
> >Windows XP intallation on it (bloody NTFS!) - can anyone suggest an easy
> >way to remedy the situation where XP will not boot and gives a 'cannot
> >find NTLDR' error.
> >I have googled and tried a few suggestions but haven't managed to get it
> >working yet. 
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Jamie, why blame NTFS for user error? When you installed lilo or grub, 
> you probably clobbered the MBR.
> You should have installed lilo or grub to the gentoo partition and 
> copied the bootstrap record to the Windows
> system partition (the one that you boot from) and editted boot.ini.
> 
> Anyway, have a look at this.
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prkd_tro_evwd.asp
> 
> One way to get out of this problem is to boot from the XP install disk 
> and use the recovery
> options to rebuild the MBR. That should fix it assuming that you haven't 
> also clobbered the NTFS partition itself.
> 
> Another option is to change lilo or grub to chainload the XP partition, 
> but I personally have never done it that way.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
>