Re: GRUB trouble in Win2000

Try booting to the Recovery Console and issue the fixmbr command on the drive in question. That will replace the Linux MBR with the Microsoft one. See here for information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/229716/ You will not be able to regain booting ability from the hard disk unless you fix the MBR.

You might need to do further steps after you fix the Master Boot Record, you may need to copy the boot files to the partition that you formatted see here for more information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728

You can also boot the Windows 2000 installation with a floppy boot disk, as explained in KB318728.

John

tbone wrote:

Guys,

I got a new machine at my work with win2000 loaded on it. ANd when I
looked at the drives I saw one drive of 1GB space in Linux format
(instead of FAT /NTFS) and it said it occupies only 20 or 30MB space,
so I formatted that drive to NTFS and rebooted the machine. Now my
machine wont boot and giving me error saying GRUD loading error. CAn
someone help me out to rectify this problem?


.

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