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Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2004 6:56 pm**

well my computer has a big problem, it won't boot :\
i currently on another computer that still work (thank god)
i figured out the problem but i can't seam to fix it

and just to make sure i'm right about the problem let me explain what happen
a couple months back i installed mandrake on the same hard drive with my windows
after fiddling with linux for a month or 2 (trying to get my wireless network adaptor to work with it) i decided i should free the spaceup for my harddrive becasue i was running out fast and linux was useless if there was no internet
heh
so since there was no way to "uninstall" it i decide just to reforamt the partion for windows
well that all whent fine but the boot loader that i used to switch between windows and linux was still there and before i didn't have a problem becasue i would just select windows and go and if i didn't do that in the 8 seconds it gave me it would just give the mandrake boot up bar and nothing else would happen (duh...)

about 3 months later (now) it didn't show the boot loader
and just "l 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"... ect it would fill the half the screen with that
so i tried to repairing windows that didn't work and i tryed to run the "fix boot" from the repair console
and that didn't work so this is were i'm stumped
now i heard there is master boot thing but the problem is the fix boot program doesn't seam fix that

so can some one help me out here
i would really apreciate it
oh and i'm tying to avoid reformating the harddrive completely
thanks

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:10 pm**

Boot from a windows floppy and type 'fdisk /mbr'

That will put a standard windows-type master boot record back onto the disk.

An alternative is to install something like XOSL or similar as a boot-manager if you still have a need for that type of thing...

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:11 pm**

the command

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fdisk /mbr

fixes the mater boot record.

**edit: Too late

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:02 pm**

does xp have that?

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:34 pm**

Yes, but you need a bootdisk. You can use an old win98 or 95 bootdisk.

To get it:

http://www.bsd.ee/~nezdali/PHOTOZ/dj/boot98.exe

thats a win98 one. If that does not work, use this:

http://www.bluevolcano.com/stuff/boot95a.exe

but the first one should have fdisk.
You need a floppy. Boot on the made floppy and then type fdisk /mbr
then you should be up and running.

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:16 am**

thanks fool it worked

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:42 am**

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