Re: [PLUG] Help with dual boot disaster

["Mike Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

> Hi--
>
> After about a month, my dual boot Windows 2000 Professional/Red Hat 7.2
> Sony Viao laptop, when in Windows mode, gave me a blue screen of death,
> and when I rebooted, an "operating system not found" message. Booting
> the machine from DOS on a floppy shows that no drives... The disk was
> partitioned with Partition Magic. The last software I installed (in
> Windows) was a Bernouili CD burner (ironically, for the backups I
> didn't perform).

Did you make those Partition Magic rescue disks? Perhaps they can restore
your MBR.
Did you check that there is a partition still marked as "active" (with
fdisk)?
 - If the Win2K partition was NTFS, you'll never see it from DOS, without a
special NTFS driver (available from http://www.sysinternals.com, or by using
a Linux rescue disk, like Tom's Root Boot http://www.toms.net/rb/, which has
the NTFS driver loaded in. Likewise for a FAT32 partition, unless it's a
Win9x DOS boot floppy.








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