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eif
09-10-2001, 08:55 AM
hi
I wonder if anybody can help me - I had two harddrives on one I have windows installed - on the other I installed mandrake 8. The trouble is - I have gotten rid of the mandrake hard drive and now I cant boot into windows - on POST all I get is a stream of 0101010101010101010101.... - im assuming that mandrakes dual boot system has either partitioned or overwritten - installed something on the windows hard drive which is why I cant boot into it. Can anyone out there help me please?

dvdnut
09-10-2001, 08:57 AM
get a windoze boot disk
boot up
at the c prompt type in following

c:/>fdisk /mbr


hope this helps

dvdnut
09-10-2001, 08:58 AM
ooh before i forget

after you've done the above, reboot after taking out the fd.

cheers