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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:23:00 +0000 "Kalyan Vaidyanathan" <kalyan_v at hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have a Dell Dimension 8100 with a dual boot on Windows ME and Red > Hat > Linux 9. As of this morning, the Windows ME partition is failing to > load. btw, Linux partition is loading fine. Both are two separate > hard disks. > I have two questions: > 1. Is there any way I can bypass the dual boot mechanism to go into > the DOS partition and run chkdsk to find if the disk is corrupted? > 2. Is it possible to mount the windows partition from within Linux and > run chkdsk or some other diagnostic to find what's wrong with the hard > disk? > > let me know, You can reset the MBR. If you have a bootable DOS disk, run fdisk /mbr In Linux: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 This will clear your MBR, but make sure you have a way to boot Linux. Both Red Hat and Suse have built-in rescue systems on their install media. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20040419/d7ab3e49/attachment.sig>
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