Re: EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Stefan Baums wrote:
>
> I found a Win98 bootdisk, ran fdisk /mbr on C:, but Win95 still did
> not boot. Then I booted into Linux, reran lilo with /dev/hda1 (the
> Win95 partition) as the thing to load, and got an error message
> (something about invalid partition specification). This did not bode
> well, I went into cfdisk to check, and indeed - the disk is 'empty'
> now, the MBR wiped clean.
>
> Nothing to do then except to give it to a technician at our University
> (Koebenhavn), who suggested that he might be able to rescue at least
> the most important files.
>
> Thanks for your help to Oswald and Dave,
> Stefan
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I think I would have made the same things (fdisk /mbr, scandisk etc..).
With this mail I want to suggest everyone (wants to install Win9X) to do
it for first (after the other OS) because Win95 rewrite mbr during
installation, and Win99 rewrite the partition table or something like, I
think. I underline that no one OS makes the same damages to other OS'.
(If someone want try something like installation of WinNT 4.0 and after
Win98 ...). I don't know Win2k because no one asked me to install it (at
home I use only Linux because I don't want to spend money for some kind of
OS' (I'm a student) and I have no time to play). I think WinNT is just
better then Win9X
(it isn't so difficult...).
Goodmorning
Beppe.
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