Re: Windows won't boot
boot with a boot disk and run fdisk and tell me what the partition table
says. which partition is marked as active, and what types it thinks they all
are. when you use the floppy, does it give any messages? how do you boot
from the floppy EXACTLY? do you have to type anything, etc, or just type
win? is the slave disk fat16 or fat32, and how did you move the files you
moved? is large disk support enabled (in fdisk youll see it ask that, if you
got the same version i do anyway)? (but then, i suppose if it was linux
wouldnt boot and it does, correct?)
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quote o' the day:
I got sucked into /dev/null
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----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Scharrer <scharrer@swcp.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 11:29 PM
Subject: Windows won't boot
> I have a 6.4Gb drive that has a 1.6Gb primary partition and a 4.8Gb
> extended partition. The extended partition has 3 logical partitions,
> each 1.6Gb. Linux is on a separate 1Gb drive on the primary IDE slave. I
> want to move linux to the 6.4Gb drive. I cleared the files from the last
> logical partition (Windows drive f:). Then I used fdisk (DOS version) to
> delete the last logical partition (f:) in the extended partition. Fdisk
> said to reboot to make the changes take effect. When I rebooted, the
> computer hung on the BIOS setup after the message "Verifying DMI pool
> data". I have to use the Windows boot floppy to get the machine up. Then
> I use loadlin to boot linux (lilo is not configured).
>
> What must I do to get Windows to boot again? What did I do to make the
> system not boot?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Greg Scharrer
>
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