log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads corect, write new partition table --> reboot, LBA is on and win is booting. none of dos/win apps worked for me to fix partition table.
i asume LBA is needed only for win itself, not vfat or ntfs partitions, therefore files are accesible from linux martins On Monday 25 July 2005 08:42, maxim wexler wrote: > > there were no succesful winxp boot, because bios > > didnt enable LBA seting. i > > dont think (win95)fdisk wil work with linux > > partitions. > > Right, but booting a win95/98 CD and running fdisk > /mbr from the DOS prompt will usually restore a WinXP > boot sector. What's so bizarre in this case is that it > should only partially restore(so it seems) > bootability. Can you or anyone explain what this > 16/255 controversy has to do with it? True, LBA is > 'off', but WinXP starts at the beginning of /dev/hdb > and *doesn't* boot, whereas gentoo starts at the 60G > point and it *does* boot. Also FWIW all WinXP files > are readable from gentoo once it's up. > > Even when I eliminate the first drive, the 200M drive > where grub resides, and install the 120G HD as > pri-master and try to boot, boot.ini opens up giving > me the choices of WinXP and Recovery Console as I said > before; only problem: neither goes anywhere, just > hangs. > > -mw > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
