deleted RH7.2 Partions = lock out of a dual boot!

JoC · 12-13-2002, 01:21 PM

I have been trying to get my Nvidia drivers installed for about a week now. i have tried *.tar and *.rpm both get me to the same point. NO LOGIN SCREEN but flickering. DavidPhillips has been a VERY LARGE help. it is just that me being a NOOB and all i do not understand everything he tells me. to me it was just as easy for me to reinstall RH becuz the only thing i had done was try and install the drivers. anyways i put my install disk in to try and reinstall RH but kept bringing me to my boot screen. so i decided to deltee my partions of linux with my WIN XP install cd. be cuz i can not find a FDISK that will allow me to do FDISK /MBR. now when i boot up my computer i get a command promt that says

grub>

my boot disk do not work ( linux or XP ) and i can not boot from a cd.

can ne one help me?

bbenz3 · 12-13-2002, 01:47 PM

I am assuming you have internet access and have a spare floppy disk. Here is a link to a bootable floppy image and I am pretty sure it has fdisk on it.

disk image

Hope that works for you

JoC · 12-13-2002, 01:56 PM

i get to the download area where you select what category but none of them relate to a boot disk?

JoC · 12-13-2002, 02:04 PM

nevermind!!!

click on your link again and it took me to the right place!

JoC · 12-13-2002, 02:06 PM

reading further and i do not think this will help be cuz i am running WIN XP and not WIN 95

bbenz3 · 12-13-2002, 02:08 PM

yeah i screwed up the link and had to reset it

fdisk is fdisk. this just happens to be one for a win95 machine but it will work fine for what you are trying to do. I have used it many times for stuff like this.

JoC · 12-13-2002, 02:14 PM

well any FDISK's that i have found tell me

" incorrect MS-DOS version"

i have WIN XP on an ntfs and that seems to be where the problem is!

JoC · 12-13-2002, 02:32 PM

when i get home after work i will giv it a shot!

thanks

bbenz3 · 12-13-2002, 02:42 PM

I have never had that problem with fdisk but have had it with the format command and that was b/c I was trying to use a version of format that didn't correspond to the command.com

JoC · 12-13-2002, 03:11 PM

interesting!!

i have tried like 2 or 3 differnet Fdisk and no go

but this one looks a bit different so........

i will see

JoC · 12-13-2002, 06:40 PM

ok i was able to get a cd booted and fix my MBR i just have to reinstall RH and start again!