Suse Linux has screwed boot sector

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Dirk Bruere

Two HDDs, one with XP and other with Linux.
I appear to have overwritten the boot stuff on the XP with Linux code.
How can I recover?

Dirk
 
Have you tried using Recovery Console's fixboot and fixmbr commands?
If that doesn't work, you may need to install boot management software
 
ottermi619 said:
Have you tried using Recovery Console's fixboot and fixmbr commands?
If that doesn't work, you may need to install boot management software
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What's that? And where do I find it?
Bear in mind that XP will not boot at all.

Dirk
 
If you rewrite the MBR which is what you are going to have to do. You won't
be able to boot SuSe without a boot disk for it. You shoulde be able to
setup in SuSe that when it boots you have the option of booting into WinXP
or SuSe. I have done this with 1 HDD many times its easy if you Install SuSe
2nd as Linux has a better boot loader than Windows does.


John
 
John said:
If you rewrite the MBR which is what you are going to have to do. You won't
be able to boot SuSe without a boot disk for it. You shoulde be able to
setup in SuSe that when it boots you have the option of booting into WinXP
or SuSe. I have done this with 1 HDD many times its easy if you Install SuSe
2nd as Linux has a better boot loader than Windows does.
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Linux is not the problem. It's sitting happily on HDD0.
XP is on HDD1 with no boot s/w.
I can't recover it using the original CDROM disc on the grounds that I
can't find the old admin password to enable it.
I can't reinstall XP without deleting the original partition and losing
40GB of progs and data.

Any other suggestions?

Dirk
 
Dirk Bruere said:
Linux is not the problem. It's sitting happily on HDD0.
XP is on HDD1 with no boot s/w.
I can't recover it using the original CDROM disc on the grounds that
I can't find the old admin password to enable it.
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When you boot the XP cd the admin password is the XP admin password
that is on the HDD you are trying to repair - you don't know that?
 
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