[wplug] I killed Windows!!!

[trquinlan at home.com]

What do you mean killed?  Are the partitions gone or are you just unable to
get to them?

If they are still there you could probably edit lilo.conf to allow lilo to
boot your windows installation.  If the are in fact gone a DOS boot disk
isn't gonna do you much good.

If you have to reinstall windows, make a boot disk for your linux install
first, because win will automatically overwrite your MBR.

David G Matthews wrote:

> me = tool.
> While attempting to try to install a new Mandrake 8.0 (replacing my SuSE
> 7.0 install), I inadvertantly iced my NT partition.  Now don't get me
> wrong, I hate Winblows as with as much righteous open source indignation
> as anybody, but unfortunately I need it to run a few apps for which no
> satisfactory Linux replacement exists. Now here's the big problem: i
> didn't back it up.  (yes, I know that means I deserve this.  I quite
> agree.  I backed up all my Linux stuff but nothing on the windoze side. me
> = moron.)  Anyway, I can't boot from CD (my sole CD-ROM is a non-bootable
> CD burner), and I don't have a rescue floppy for Windows.  Does anyone
> know if it's possible to create a Windows or DOS boot floppy under
> Linux?  There's a ton of documentation out there on installing Linux on
> a system running Windows, but none on installing Windows on a system
> running Linux.
> -dgm who is a dolt
>
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