Originally posted by PHATMAN5050
I seem to have a big problem...This was my setup
HDD 1-40gig-NTFS-WinXP PRo
HDD 2-30gig-Redhat7.3
When i installed redhat7.3 on my second hard drive it erased the master boot record for winxp...i think...When i started up my computer with only the winxp hd in, it would boot and it would have L with nothing else, it wouldn't boot into the operating system or anything. I talked with a couple of people in the irc and on aim, and they said to insatll redhat7.3 again and this time make a mount for winxp stated in the DUAL BOOTING WITH LINUX AND WINXP and i followed it all. The only change i made was to change it to MAKE MBR ON PARTITION. Now when i bootup with both hard drives in it has an 'Li' and it doesnt boot into linux anymore without the linux boot disk. I tried to restore xp with the cd, and i hit 'r' for repair and it goes into a command prompt. In the prompt it just had C: and nothing after it. I typed HELP and it had FIXMBR as one of the choices so i did FIXMBR and it didnt really think or anything it just went onto the next line without saying anything. Basically, what i want to do now is get WinXP back and once that is repaired i will start again with linux. Hopefully this all is clear because it is incedibly confusing for me! Thanks!!