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It's really weird. It's like my computer has had enough of Micro$oft. When I've created the partition, formated to NTFS, copied the files needed for the setup, and then it reboots. This is where it stops working perfect. When rebooted, instead of getting that Windows XP reboot image, and the rest of the install procedure, I get some message saying there's some read disc error. At first, I thought it was something with the disc, so I tried Win 2k, exact same error message there. Now it says "Bč_S" instead of disc error. I don't know what's wrong, but I'm suspecting some sort of virus. A couple of days prior to when all this began, I had some sort of virus on my Windows drive, Symantec quarantined it, and I later deleted it. Everything seemed fine, until I tried to format a clean install of Windows XP. So, could it be that virus? I can't remember the name of it, but if someone could direct me to a good Anti Virus software for Mandrake, that can scan the Windows partitions, that would be great.
Last edited by EliasAlucard; 06-02-2005 at 05:59 PM.
Originally posted by Boby Try booting from your XP cd and go to the recovery console, there use ''fixmbr'' and reboot, maybe you just have to rewrite the MBR of your disk.
It could be the MBR that has farged it all up. A friend of pointed out that it could be MBR that has b0rked it all up. But I've been when installing XP erasing the entire Linux partition and installing XP over it, so it couldn't be the MBR? I mean, it can't be placed on the NTFS partition? I've checked Clam, but it appears that it doesn't exist for Mandrake 10.2 LE, so will it work? How do I use the ''fixmbr''? When you say booting XP from the CD, I take it you mean the install procedure?
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Bad CDROM drive maybe?
I doubt it, since Linux Mandrake 10.2 installs just about perfect.
When booting from XP, you have the option to try and repair earlier installations.
(Says something like: Press R to repair, or Esc to continue withouot repair)
There are a few more things before you can type the fixmbr command, but it's been so long since I did this, I'm afraid I don't remember the entire process. (Should be pretty straight-forward..)
You could also boot using a Windows98 bootdisk.
After the boot-process is complete, you simply type:
fdisk /mbr
Originally posted by akilles When booting from XP, you have the option to try and repair earlier installations.
(Says something like: Press R to repair, or Esc to continue withouot repair)
There are a few more things before you can type the fixmbr command, but it's been so long since I did this, I'm afraid I don't remember the entire process. (Should be pretty straight-forward..)
You could also boot using a Windows98 bootdisk.
After the boot-process is complete, you simply type:
fdisk /mbr
That should fix your MBR in a flash.
-Geir
The thing is, I don't have XP installed anymore. It's completely erased out of my system, so I don't have the option to repair previous installations anymore. Being that it's no longer on my system, shouldn't the MBR be gone too?
I see. But I have Linux installed now on the partition where XP used to be. Does this mean that the XP MBR is still on the Linux partition now? And will I be able to repair XP when I don't have it installed anymore?
There's no such thing as XP MBR and Linux MBR
Only on MBR pr. harddrive (Master Boot Record)
What I would suggest is this:
Boot using a bootdisk, and fix the MBR.
Then boot using a Linux installation disc, (or windows installation disk, if that's what you want)
Install everything from scratch.
All right, I'll give it a try. I'm new to this, so excuse me if I don't know everything I chose to boot with the MBR when I installed Mandrake, and I think that this is what screwed everything up. Should I not choose this feature in the future?
When I use only Linux on a computer, I install Lilo to MBR.
It's always worked great for me.
When I need dual-boot (my laptop runs both xp and slackware 10.0) I use xp's nl-loader.
Then I choose not install lilo to MBR.
with a bit of tinkering (now I have it all automated), changing to new kernels and stuff is real easy.
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I chose to boot with the MBR when I installed Mandrake, and I think that this is what screwed everything up. Should I not choose this feature in the future?
