Hi,

I had two OS's in my PC. First I installed Windows XP. Then I installed Fedora 14. Yesterday due to lack of space after booting into windows I deleted the drive where I installed fedora. Now when once I restarted my PC it not showing me to load the windows. It is showing GRUB promt. I tried to use my Windows CD to repair. But it is showing only one drive(but i had 5 logical drives!!!) and saying drive can't be accessed. What to do now. Please can some help me???

thanks in advance.

Have you tried to boot with a live cd to see if the windows intall still there? Did you tried the fixmbr command using the windows cd ? Boot with that then go recovery mode, then chose recover, when it drop you into a prompt use the fixmbr command to fix it you will need some parameters/options with it.

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I tried with Recovery option, but it shows unknown drive!!!
I have not tried with fixmbr command.
can you give me the syntax for fixmbr?

I tried with fixmbr.It is not showing any output.
Before that i tried with Map to get the devices.
It is showing only device A(i.e. floppy drive) and device D(i.e. CDdrive)
I don't understand the problem.
Can any one help?

i tried with 'root (hd0,0)' it is showing filesystem type unknown

I think the main GRUB program was on the Fedora disk you deleted so nothing's working properly? Your Window's repair disk can't see the Linux ones because they're formatted as EXT3 or EXT4 or some other Linux format which Windows doesn't recognise. You'll need to boot a Live Linux CD or DVD and check your partitions and drives. Gparted is on most linux distros and should show up the missing partitions.

Do you want Windows and Linux on your system or just Windows? If just Windows you'd have to use Gparted to delete all your non-windows partitions then you have to decide if you want to expand your Windows partition to fill the complete disk or have separate partitions. I think you'd have to re-format the "missing" partition(s) as NTFS first.

Anyway, that's my

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