How to fix MBR-I want XP to sit in my MBR

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Hi,

I used to have Win XP and Red Hat Linux on my desktop. Mistakenly I
formatted the Linux partition without realizing that LILO is still in the
MBR. Now I am struck with ">grub" prompt. How to get around it?
I was going through some of the previous postings; they are saying to "fdisk
/mbr". Does this help the XP to take control of the MBR?
Do I need to do anything else such as taking the power cable out of the hard
disk???
Please note that I have a single hard disk with XP and Linux partitions on
it. With Linux partition formatted I want to use the entire hard disk for
XP.

Thanks in advance for insights.

 

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Get a Win98 bootdisk from here. www.bootdisk.com Use it to get to
a command prompt and type: fdisk /mbr. With
a space between k and /. Then you can use your WinXP CD to boot to the
Recovery Console and at the command prompt type: bootcfg /rebuild
Those two steps should get you going again.
"BHAM KAL" <nospam@spamstopper.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I used to have Win XP and Red Hat Linux on my desktop. Mistakenly I
> formatted the Linux partition without realizing that LILO is still in the
> MBR. Now I am struck with ">grub" prompt. How to get around it?
> I was going through some of the previous postings; they are saying to
> "fdisk
> /mbr". Does this help the XP to take control of the MBR?
> Do I need to do anything else such as taking the power cable out of the
> hard
> disk???
> Please note that I have a single hard disk with XP and Linux partitions on
> it. With Linux partition formatted I want to use the entire hard disk for
> XP.
>
> Thanks in advance for insights.
>
>

 

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Rich
The same can be achieved by using only the XP bootable CD. In the RC type

fixmbr
fixboot

or bootcfg /rebuild -- only if you're having problems with the boot.ini
file.

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"Rich Barry" <rbarry@Notsocal.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Get a Win98 bootdisk from here. www.bootdisk.com Use it to get to
> a command prompt and type: fdisk /mbr. With
> a space between k and /. Then you can use your WinXP CD to boot to
> the Recovery Console and at the command prompt type: bootcfg /rebuild
> Those two steps should get you going again.
> "BHAM KAL" <nospam@spamstopper.com> wrote in message
> news:%23NTkW5TxEHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used to have Win XP and Red Hat Linux on my desktop. Mistakenly I
>> formatted the Linux partition without realizing that LILO is still in the
>> MBR. Now I am struck with ">grub" prompt. How to get around it?
>> I was going through some of the previous postings; they are saying to
>> "fdisk
>> /mbr". Does this help the XP to take control of the MBR?
>> Do I need to do anything else such as taking the power cable out of the
>> hard
>> disk???
>> Please note that I have a single hard disk with XP and Linux partitions
>> on
>> it. With Linux partition formatted I want to use the entire hard disk for
>> XP.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for insights.
>>
>>
>
>