[plug] Crashed Linux Installation

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:18:23 +0800, Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> 
> I have just had a linux install go belly up !!!!
> 
> I was reinstalling Linux on a dual boot machine with Windows.
> 
> Grub misbehaved and wrecked the MBR on the primary  master.
> 
> In an effort to cleanup the mess I have deleted all the linux partitions.
> 
> But cannot remove the last remnants of Grub from the boot sector.
> 
> I have tried 'fdisk /mbr' and sys c: from a dos boot disk - but no luck at all.

Whatversion of windows? Don't w2k and xp use something different now?

Have you tried booting from your windows install cd and repairing?

> 
> When I try to boot the system - it goes through the normal bios display - but when it gets to read
> the boot sector it just sits there flashing "Grub" as a prompt with no error message - but the
> machine is locked up and will only respond to a hard reset.
> 
> Any Ideas before I erase the whole drive and go fishing !!!!
> 
> I would like to recover the system and the 30 Gb of files on it.
> 
> Not a good day, just upgraded to new HDD, 128 Mb Radeon 9200 SE and a Billion 5100 and I can't play
> with it.
> 
> Will also need some advice to get X working on the Radeon, when I first tried all I could get was
> the command line fashing on and off for 1 Minute every 5 minutes. No fun in that either.
> 
> Hmmm, maybe I will go fishing instead.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Regards Arie
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Regards,
Russ