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linux and windows mbr
i recently installed linux on a different partition to windows, quiet
naturally it wrote its own bootloader on the mbr, now i got rid of linux because it kept on crashing on start up but the bootloader menu keeps coming up and i want to get rid of it. is it possible to get rid of it by using the command in the recovery console using the command "fixmbr" or should i install windows again on a different partition and get rid of it and edit boot.ini?? |
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In article , Squibbly says...
i recently installed linux on a different partition to windows, quiet naturally it wrote its own bootloader on the mbr, now i got rid of linux because it kept on crashing on start up but the bootloader menu keeps coming up and i want to get rid of it. is it possible to get rid of it by using the command in the recovery console using the command "fixmbr" or should i install windows again on a different partition and get rid of it and edit boot.ini?? Using FIXMBR removes the bootloader but doesn't set the Windows partition as Active so it will come up with Invalid System Disk or similar. The easiest way is to create a Win98 bootable floppy (www.bootdisk.com), boot with that and type FDISK /MBR. Reboot with the floppy again, rerun FDISK and make sure the XP partition is marked Active. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B |
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but couldnt i fix that with the fixboot command??
"Conor" wrote in message t... In article , Squibbly says... i recently installed linux on a different partition to windows, quiet naturally it wrote its own bootloader on the mbr, now i got rid of linux because it kept on crashing on start up but the bootloader menu keeps coming up and i want to get rid of it. is it possible to get rid of it by using the command in the recovery console using the command "fixmbr" or should i install windows again on a different partition and get rid of it and edit boot.ini?? Using FIXMBR removes the bootloader but doesn't set the Windows partition as Active so it will come up with Invalid System Disk or similar. The easiest way is to create a Win98 bootable floppy (www.bootdisk.com), boot with that and type FDISK /MBR. Reboot with the floppy again, rerun FDISK and make sure the XP partition is marked Active. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B |
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In article , Squibbly says...
but couldnt i fix that with the fixboot command?? Nope. Been there, tried it - unless I was missing something. YMMV though. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B |
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YMMV?????
"Conor" wrote in message t... In article , Squibbly says... but couldnt i fix that with the fixboot command?? Nope. Been there, tried it - unless I was missing something. YMMV though. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B |
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Squibbly wrote:
YMMV????? Here's a bit of education that will serve you well for the rest of your life: if you don't know what an acronym means, just look it up with an online acronym dictionary. "Conor" wrote in message t... In article , Squibbly says... but couldnt i fix that with the fixboot command?? Nope. Been there, tried it - unless I was missing something. YMMV though. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B -- spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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ok i didnt know they existed
"spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Squibbly wrote: YMMV????? Here's a bit of education that will serve you well for the rest of your life: if you don't know what an acronym means, just look it up with an online acronym dictionary. "Conor" wrote in message t... In article , Squibbly says... but couldnt i fix that with the fixboot command?? Nope. Been there, tried it - unless I was missing something. YMMV though. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B -- spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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you mileage may vary??? whats thats suppose to mean???
"spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Squibbly wrote: YMMV????? Here's a bit of education that will serve you well for the rest of your life: if you don't know what an acronym means, just look it up with an online acronym dictionary. "Conor" wrote in message t... In article , Squibbly says... but couldnt i fix that with the fixboot command?? Nope. Been there, tried it - unless I was missing something. YMMV though. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B -- spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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Squibbly wrote:
you mileage may vary??? whats thats suppose to mean??? It means your results may be different. It's another way of acknowledging individual variation. "spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Squibbly wrote: YMMV????? Here's a bit of education that will serve you well for the rest of your life: if you don't know what an acronym means, just look it up with an online acronym dictionary. "Conor" wrote in message .net... In article , Squibbly says... but couldnt i fix that with the fixboot command?? Nope. Been there, tried it - unless I was missing something. YMMV though. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B -- spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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Squibbly wrote:
you mileage may vary??? whats thats suppose to mean??? The phrase derives from the EPA mileage sticker on new cars containing the caveat "your mileage may vary" from what the sticker says. Colloquially it means "this was my experience but yours might be different," or any reasonable variation on the same theme. It's a quite reasonable caveat when relating an anecdotal experience since what works, or was the problem, in one case doesn't necessarily mean that's the only thing that could be the problem; just that it was, or thought to be, 'that time'. I.E. Things might be different for you. YMMV. It can also be an injection of humor because the conventional wisdom is that your mileage will usually be just about anything except what the sticker says and, if you add Murphy's Law in, uniformly less than imagined. Which, of course, is what makes it so popular: 'may' vary? "spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Squibbly wrote: YMMV????? Here's a bit of education that will serve you well for the rest of your life: if you don't know what an acronym means, just look it up with an online acronym dictionary. "Conor" wrote in message .net... In article , Squibbly says... but couldnt i fix that with the fixboot command?? Nope. Been there, tried it - unless I was missing something. YMMV though. -- Conor Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B -- spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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