[LBo] [Fwd: [fpqrp] Help fixing Win2k Boot Loader.....]

[tim]

Jisao wrote:
> Anita Lewis wrote:
>> On 01/02/2007 06:47 PM Sam Morgan wrote:
>>  
>>> Anyone have an answer for this gentleman?
>>>
>>> Okay, I need some help here.  I recently installed Debian to some spare
>>> space on my main drive.  It made it's own partitions, and now the Win2k
>>> bootloader can't find windows.  Windows is still on the same partition,
>>> and I have made no changes in boot.ini.
>>>
>>> On my main drive, this is the partition info from fdisk:
>>>
>>> ===
>>>
>>> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
>>> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5169 cylinders
>>> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
>>>
>>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>> /dev/hda1              69        3789    28130760    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>>> /dev/hda2   *        3790        5169    10432800   83  Linux
>>> /dev/hda4               1          68      514048+   6  FAT16
>>> /dev/hda5              69        3725    27646888+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>>> /dev/hda6            3726        3789      483808+  82  Linux swap /
>>> Solaris
>>>     
>>
>>  
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Just my 2 cents, but it looks to me like debian resized the windows 
>>> partition, which placed it the end of the drive; most likely on the 
>>> 2nd primary partition.  Everything else is now on the extended 
>>> partition at the beginning of the drive.  Basically backwards from 
>>> what I generally do, but I have done similar things and it worked.  
>>> I rarely mess with windows anymore, but editing the boot.ini with 
>>> the proper information might work.  Also, I wasn't able to determine 
>>> if you are able to boot into debian.  Maybe a floppy boot loader 
>>> like smart boot loader would get you going. 
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