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

[Michael Sullivan]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 01:22 +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> 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.
>

I found this site:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR)_and_why#Single_disk_installation

It's got my wife's computer doing what she wanted it to now, for the
most part.  I should have thought to look at the Gentoo wiki before I
sent off my original mail.  We're still having a problem with ALSA in
Linux, but I want to work on that a bit more on my own before I go
asking for help.


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