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Linux is gone

Sun, 06/03/2005 - 4:20pm — eng.samer

hii alll....am working on mandrake 10.1 on pation d: and i have xp on c: as u know windows have many problems and u must reinstal it after some time... but when i did that Linux is gone with its partition . so can get my Linux back without reinstalling it again... thnx...

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linux does not forget its friends

Alaa - 06/03/2005 - 5:22pm

don't worry your beloved GNU/Linux is not gone, it is still there.

all that happened is that when oyu installed windows it deleted the Linux boot loader (the menu that lets you choose which operating system to boot).

all you need to do is restore the boot loader and things will be fine.

now you can do that using the Mandrake installation 1st CD.

  1. boot from the 1st cd
  2. when you get the welcome screen hit F1
  3. you'll get a text screen, write rescue and hit ENTER_
  4. this will load the rescue program, eventually you will see a list of operations
  5. using arrow keys, tab and enter select the option restore bootloader

tadah things should now work fine for you.

there is a possibility that this will not work if you changed the partitioning of your system when you installed windows, if partitions changed, you will have to restore the boot loader manually.

Alaa

"i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

thnx

eng.samer - 07/03/2005 - 4:47am

thanx Alaa... i will try that and i hope it will work and am happy 2b one of Linux users cause am get bored of that what they call windows

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