Posted: 11/8/2006 4:17:54 PM EDT
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1st a lesson kids.. never use an OS weach you do not know the date of... or have not heard of before... So what happend is i found a Disk of SuSE linux.. i have had linux on the second HD of my PC's senice i was 13 and thought i would give this one a try.. well i went to go install it and during the install it threw an error up and shut down.. i was like great.. ohh well.. went to reboot to XP and got the error NTLDR Not Found Press ctrl-alt-del to restart... Great.... ok so i tryed sevral things with this error to try and fix the problem. First off i tryed repairing my windblowz install to no avail. then tryed reinstalling it with no luck. Second i went into the repair prompt and copyed good versons of the NLTDR files and boot InI and that dident work.. Then i ran the Fixmbr command to try and take car of the boot record... nothing... i even reset my bios and tryed that... still dident work.. Jesus guys i'm stumped here i cant just whipe and rebuild becuse i have 10 years and probably 80 gigs of information on this HD. if i had a large enough second HD i would just copy it all over and whipe. i doubt even my file server has enough space to fit everything. any help would be greatly appresated. Right now i'm trying to put togather a Boot Disk with Fdisk on it and such to see if my partation got screwed.. Jess |
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to check and see if the data is there use knoppix you'll need bittorent to download the iso. boot off the cd and it will tell you what partitions are readable and not. it will read linux and windoz data. anytime this has hapened to me the repair has fixed the not booting into windoz part. are you sure the drive didn't die? check jumpers? try another ide cable. alot of use(meaning unplugging and plugging them in) on ide cables WILL wear them out. are they seen in the bios? have you tried unhooking one drive and tried booting off just one or the other? have your checked and double checked your boot order in the bios. make sure their aren't any floppyies or cd's still in ANY of your cdroms |
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i hate SuSE linux. SuSE probably put LILO or GRUB (the linux bootloaders) on the MBR of your harddisk. fdisk /mbr used to fix this and reinstall the proper windows boot loader, i don't know if that still works. typically you would setup your lilo/grub config to boot windows too. so you have the menu at bootup. |
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Ah HAH! no wonder i have been beating my head agenst a wall becuse windows can not see Linux Partitions... so in essence this crappy softwere *IMHO now but may put it on an older system to poke around a bit * created a partion on my main windows HD that ended up having no MBR installed into it becuse when it attempted to install it could not deal with the NTFS file system of XP. Therefore when i attempted to reinstall windows the install and everything went fine all the data is still there etc but it wouldent load becuse its hitting the Linux partition and not the windows one. Leave it to a computer geek with limeted knowledge screw something up so complecated.. I know windows every weach way but Linux i have been completely clueless on.. *never really studyed it at all* Thanks for the help i'll let everyone know how i fix the problem *when i fiix the problem* Jess |
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next time you do the install use redhat, it's by far the most user friendly distro. just don't install grub to the MBR, have it install to the /boot partition, then you can configure NTLDR with boot.ini to boot the linux stuff. i found a good HOWTO for you, easier than me typing it out. HOWTO Dualboot WinXP/Redhat with Grub |