[wellylug] Screwed up laptop :(

[postie]

Jamie Dobbs wrote:

>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
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>- Jamie -
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>On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 11:45, postie wrote:
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>>Jamie Dobbs wrote:
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>>>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. 
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>>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.
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>>Anyway, have a look at this.
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>>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prkd_tro_evwd.asp
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>>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.
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>>Another option is to change lilo or grub to chainload the XP partition, 
>>but I personally have never done it that way.
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>>Cheers,
>>
>>Cliff
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Hi Jamie,

Why do you think that the file system had anything to do with it? I'm 
interested.

Cheers,

Cliff