I have an urgent problem.

I have dual boot system, Windows 2000 Pro and Suse 9.2.
Yesterday I used Partition Magic 8.0 to resize drive C and instructed PM to take free space from drive D: and add it to drive C.

After rebooting PM started doing its thing and stopped on step2 of 7 with "Error 1" saying that it couldn't recognize the filesystem on the partition. I think what happened is that it started taking space from the Linux partition instead of drive D in Windows.

After the reboot of the PC the system stops at the "GRUB" message and freezes and I think the MBR has been messed up.

My dilemma: I absolutely cannot afford to lose the Windows but erasing Linux is not a problem (it was experimental anyway). Would re-writing MBR erase all my partitions in Windows? Do I use Windows boot CD to re-write MBR or Linux boot CD? Is there a way of keeping all the windows stuff and erasing the Linux partition.

PLEASE HELP, ASAP

Grab your windows CD or floppy boot disc. You can use that to reinstall the MBR. That will boot you straight into windows without destroying anything except the corrupt boot sector. If you then need to get at linux you can reinstall lilo or grub using your install disks. But if you say its only experimental you can just reinstall the whole OS!

To find out how to reinstall the windows MBR search google, there are plenty of sites that can help you there more than I can.

Good Luck
Michael

Thanks, some quick questions:

Grub was the primary loader.
Should I first erase the linux partition before re-writing MBR through Wi2000 CD?

What would re-writing the boot.ini do ?

to the first point, there is no need to erase the linux partition as it makes no difference to the MS bootloader.

And I know nothing about boot.ini sorry.

"What would re-writing the boot.ini do ?
Not sure what you mean, but re-installing the Windows MBR will not effect the boot.ini.

Thats what I meant: I thought that re-writing MBR will affect boot.ini

Will the partitions be lost if MBR is re-written, I have 2 other partitions besides C: that I absolutely can't loose

No, they won't. The MBR is a place unto itself.