Hi Greg Gregory Avedissian wrote:
Yup. I blew it away. I had win98 and suse 8.2 on the same hard drive, booting linux from floppy. Noticed that I could no longer boot windows from the hard drive, so I attemted to restore the mbr that I'd saved earlier.
You don't say how you tried to "restore" but it sounds like you might have tried to do it within SuSE by copying the mbr copy SuSE makes into the mbr space. If so, you still have another option. You can use windows fdisk as fdisk /mbr You may then have to do something to get command.com and msdos.sys files back into place; I think the command is sys c: but am not sure (long time since I have played with Windows) (i.e. sometimes just the fdisk /mbr is not enough). I believe all this requires a dos/windows boot disk which should have the requisite tools on it. Read the manual to confirm that sys command :-) Also, can you boot into Linux (you made a boot disk didn't you) and simply run LILO. Try the simple things before screwing around with parted. Finally, it is generally a good idea to be more specific about what you did to get into trouble and what you have tried. It makes Dx and Rx easier for the reader. doug PS now you know why it is a good idea to have a hard copy of /etc/fstab and of the output of fdisk -l for each hard drive in your system! :-) PPS My spelling checker thinks fdisk should be frisk and sys should be sighs. :-)