Journal agraupe's Journal: To keep my summer interesting 2
Now the meat of the story. Because I might want to sell this PC in the future, and because I like all of my PCs in full working order, I want to get the NTLDR back on there. I installed the Recovery Console per MS instructions, but it hangs when it loads up, probably due to some hardware conflict. As my computer is working fine now, I am not concerned. But I would like to get it working. Then I discovered Dell has toll-free tech support. As they are, according to MS, the primary support service for my copy of Windows, I am going to call their tech support until my problem is fixed. I don't care how long it takes, or even if it gets fixed. That is, at this point, an added bonus. You might call this torture, but, hey, if they can't fix my problem, they aren't doing their job, and if they aren't doing their job, why shouldn't I pester them. Remember, I'll stop doing this if they fix it.
Anyway, as I have one month before school starts, for once I don't think I will get bored, except perhaps on weekends. And, it's unlikely, but my computer might work better at the end of it!
FIXMBR (Score:1)
Boot off an XP disc (I assume that's what you're running) and when it comes up for the install go into the Recovery Console. Log into your XP partition through this and run FIXMBR and you should be good to go.
I think it's FIXMBR at least -- if not, type "help" or whatever it tells you on that console, and it'll tell you what you need to know.
Trust me, I've done it a number of times. And many more Linux installs and uninstalls.
GRUB (Score:1)