apparently unique dual boot problems
 

installed fedora core 2, but grub will no longer load windows XP - as far as i can tell, i accidentally over-wrote the windows bootloader by installing grub on the MBR. is it possible to recover windows bootloader without reinstalling windows, as i do not want to have to reconfigure my windows files &c. thanks for any help.

use a windows rescue disk,
go to start->run->cmd
type:
C:\WINNT\system32\>fdisk /mbr
this will re-write your mbr

thanks for the help, but i don't seem to have a windows rescue disk, and making one on my other box doesn't seem to work - i tried using the winXP cd, but it just goes blank after asking for an administrator password. Is there any way to re-write the MBR as the windows XP boot without having to boot into windows, as I haven't managed to boot into windows using any means i'm aware of.

Can you do a "/sbin/fdisk -l" as root in Fedora and post the output?
By the way its easy to fix if you all did was overwriting the MBR.

This problem with windows was mentioned in Linux FORMAT ...
this link will help :
http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/

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