[GLLUG] Removing Lillo changes to MBR

[Michael Cox]

I personally have an irrational hatred of LILLO and won't use even if paid.
I personally have an irrational hatred of Adaptec and won't ever buy a
product of theirs, ever. They screwed me on Future Domain; they screwed on
Easy CD Creator, I am now the wiser. As such, I could never have the problem
you have.

Perhaps the program Bootpart could assist you. Googlize bootpart, it is not
hard to find. It writes a small image file to the zero track pointing to
itself. Might be your fix, might not.

Good luck,

Michael

>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu
>[mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of William Bembeneck
>Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:24 PM
>To: GLLUG
>Subject: [GLLUG] Removing Lillo changes to MBR
>
>
>I have a 160 GB hard drive divided into two partions, running XP
>w/Roxio GoBack.
>
>I added a 40GB hard drive and installed Linux on it, having the
>Lillo install to the MBR.
>
>Now, Goback isn't working and I can't get into XP. GoBack has done
>some thing to the MBR and partition tables so that my two partions
>look like one big one.
>
>Lillo is not running now.
>
>I tried using XP's recovery console to fix the boot record. Nothing
>I've done every thing that tech support for Goback has told me nothing.
>
>Is it possible to restore the MBR to how it was before Lillo was installed?
>
>For some reason, my boot disk does not work, (it never has from
>the beginning). If I have to get into linux?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Seth
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