Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR

[Jesús Guerrero]

El Lunes, 21 de Agosto de 2006 00:30, Michael Sullivan escribió:
> Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating
> systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old
> games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine.  She attempted to
> boot into Windows XP today, but got an error message:
>
> NTLDR is missing
> Press any key to continue
>
> I've been doing research on NTLDR, and I've found lots of help in
> restoring NTLDR, but none whatsoever in simply removing it.  Her
> computer uses grub as the boot loader.  I know this isn't specifically a
> Gentoo question, and not even a Linux question, but she needs WinXP for
> school (she's starting in the Medical Lab Technician program tomorrow.
> All her homework is on the computer, and our school isn't enlightened
> enough to use Linux yet.)  Can anyone help me?

I advise you to mount the winxp partition, or the partition where your 
document files reside, if it is a different one. Dont have a windows box 
right now at hand, but they usually are at c:\documents and 
settings\<username> or something similar. Mount the partition from linux, 
even a livecd can be used for that purpose. Then make a backup of the docs, 
at least, the ones that you need for tomorrow.

Then, once you have recued all the relevant stuff, you can mess up with ntldr 
or reinstall or whatever. BTW, why do you want to delete it? You need to 
restore it or whatever, ntldr is the Windows loader, you need it to boot 
Windows ;)

As you said, there is a lot of info on various ntldr, I left the windows world 
time ago, so I could not help on that even anyway. But I give you the advise, 
first, overall if you are not familiar with anything that you need to do to 
restore it, make a backup, that is never a bad thing to have. 

Jesús.

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