Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

I has Linux installed, and needed to remove it. So I used what I was told to
be the correct process to rid myself of lilo so I could boot into W2k Pro.
But now I cant boot into it. When I boot I get nothing, it just sits there.
Anyway, does anyone have some instructions on repairing the boot sector with
the w2k console? I tried fixboot, which wrote a new boot sector, but that
didn't help..

I remember someone posting a link for using the WinXP console to fix dual
boot systems a while back, but cant seem to find it.. Something along those
lines would really help..

Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:09:28 GMT, "JesterDev" <jester.dev@comcast.net>
wrote:

>I has Linux installed, and needed to remove it. So I used what I was told to
>be the correct process to rid myself of lilo so I could boot into W2k Pro.
>But now I cant boot into it. When I boot I get nothing, it just sits there.
>Anyway, does anyone have some instructions on repairing the boot sector with
>the w2k console? I tried fixboot, which wrote a new boot sector, but that
>didn't help..
>
>I remember someone posting a link for using the WinXP console to fix dual
>boot systems a while back, but cant seem to find it.. Something along those
>lines would really help..

Were you able to boot into Windows *before* you removed lilo?
--
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Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

Yes I could. I was able to boot into win2k with no problems at all.
I also winxp installed, which came with the computer, but dont have
the cd's for it. So when I got past lilo it game me another choice
of windows 2000 pro, or XP.

"Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> wrote in message
news:nnkiiv4pdc2vm2o70ljihitn31mjo3g6to@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:09:28 GMT, "JesterDev" <jester.dev@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> >I has Linux installed, and needed to remove it. So I used what I was told
to
> >be the correct process to rid myself of lilo so I could boot into W2k
Pro.
> >But now I cant boot into it. When I boot I get nothing, it just sits
there.
> >Anyway, does anyone have some instructions on repairing the boot sector
with
> >the w2k console? I tried fixboot, which wrote a new boot sector, but that
> >didn't help..
> >
> >I remember someone posting a link for using the WinXP console to fix dual
> >boot systems a while back, but cant seem to find it.. Something along
those
> >lines would really help..
>
> Were you able to boot into Windows *before* you removed lilo?
> --
> auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com

Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

Howdy!

"JesterDev" <jester.dev@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:c3cWa.21367$It4.14897@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.n et...
> I has Linux installed, and needed to remove it. So I used what I was told
to
> be the correct process to rid myself of lilo so I could boot into W2k Pro.
> But now I cant boot into it. When I boot I get nothing, it just sits
there.
> Anyway, does anyone have some instructions on repairing the boot sector
with
> the w2k console? I tried fixboot, which wrote a new boot sector, but that
> didn't help..
>
> I remember someone posting a link for using the WinXP console to fix dual
> boot systems a while back, but cant seem to find it.. Something along
those
> lines would really help..

If LILO was in the master boot record, you also need to do a FIXMBR.

Try that off of the recovery console.

RwP

Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

"Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp@techie.com> wrote:

>Howdy!
>
>"JesterDev" <jester.dev@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:c3cWa.21367$It4.14897@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att. net...
>> I has Linux installed, and needed to remove it. So I used what I was told
>to
>> be the correct process to rid myself of lilo so I could boot into W2k Pro.
>> But now I cant boot into it. When I boot I get nothing, it just sits
>there.
>> Anyway, does anyone have some instructions on repairing the boot sector
>with
>> the w2k console? I tried fixboot, which wrote a new boot sector, but that
>> didn't help..
>>
>> I remember someone posting a link for using the WinXP console to fix dual
>> boot systems a while back, but cant seem to find it.. Something along
>those
>> lines would really help..
>
> If LILO was in the master boot record, you also need to do a FIXMBR.
>
> Try that off of the recovery console.
>
> RwP
>

Hey, Ralph! When are you going to reply to my 'Outlook/NNTP' post?

I'm still waiting...

--

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peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
- Dubya Bush, June 14 2001, unaware that live
television cameras were still rolling.

Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

Howdy!

"Doctor Monsignor Larville Jones MD" <tardspnaker@hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:v3vjivgnce5p5ipu6biti9bnr8srvivqhd@4ax.com...

>
> Hey, Ralph! When are you going to reply to my 'Outlook/NNTP' post?
>
> I'm still waiting...

Didn't see it. See, I have this thing called "a life" that keeps me
from being on the Internet 24/7 ...

RwP

Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

Ralph Wade Phillips wrote:
> Howdy!

Yerk! What a jerk!

*PLONK*

Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

Drosini Jada <alJhMYAmHy4D@eagle.yaih.net> wrote:

>Ralph Wade Phillips wrote:
>> Howdy!
>
>Yerk! What a jerk!
>
>*PLONK*

Got clue?

--

"It's amazing I won. I was running against
peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
- Dubya Bush, June 14 2001, unaware that live
television cameras were still rolling.

Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

Howdy!

"Monsignor Larville Jones MD" <tardspnaker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:kcrnivkngi36ma4kkgna62rr85jnsbn4d0@4ax.com...
> "Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp@techie.com> wrote:

Much snippage ensues ...

> >> Sure about that, are you, Ralph? I have set up a virtual NNTP service
> >> on my Exchange 2000 box that feeds news directly into the 'internet
> >> newsgroups' Public Folder in, guess what, yes, OUTLOOK.
> >
> > In Exchange. In a public folder.
>
> No, Ralph. In OUTLOOK. I fire up OUTLOOK. In that instance, OUTLOOK Is
> the application I use to read news. OUTLOOK Is therefore the
> news-reader, not Exchange. OUTLOOK may connect to Exchange to retrieve
> the headers, but by your definition, we TINW aren't using OE, Agent,
> XNews, etc. to read news, but the NNTP server. This is, quite
> obviously, horse-pucky.

Huh? Let's see - "I have set up a VIRTUAL NNTP service on my
EXCHANGE 2000 box."

Exchange is doing the NNTP access.

Now, you can read news in public folders all day long. But do keep
up - that's not the same thing as doing news NATIVELY within Outlook.

Now - since they're PUBLIC folders, they're on the EXCHANGE server.
Again, the Outlook box isn't doing news .. the Exchange server is, and is
presenting it in a format that Outlook can handle.

Try shutting Exchange down and see how far your "public folders" run
....

>
> >
> > Now, without Exchange?
> >
> > No, Outlook needs Outlook Express to do NNTP mail. Or some other
> >provider.
>
> 'NNTP mail'? 'provider'? Wtf?

NNTP news feed is through your Exchange server, ne? Others, without
Exchange, use Outlook Express as the NNTP agent.

Without either, you get no NNTP service.

Therefore no news.

>
> >
> > "Public Folders" are NOT the same thing.
> >
> > As anyone who's actually WORKED with an honest-to-$DEITY news
server
> >well knows ...
>
> I work with one on a daily basis, Ralph. It is, however, OUTLOOK that
> is executed on the client-side to read news. My users don't have
> exchange installed on their workstations, yet they can read the
> newsgroups I deign to allow them access to - via their installations
> of OUTLOOK.

Reading out of the Exchange Server's public folders.

My, is there a reading comprehension problem here? The EXCHANGE
server is doing the news feed. The OUTLOOK client can't do **** without
SOMETHING to provice the NNTP service for it. Be it Outlook Express (what
mere mortals are stuck with) or Exchange (what you're using). But shut that
server off, remove all instances of MSIMN.* from your system, and see how
much news you can get.

>
> Can you see a pattern developing here?

Sure. I don't think YOU do - you keep driving my point home, and
then wanting to argue with me.

>
> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I suggest YOU research sometimes before you blast others.
> >>
> >> Ditto. SPNAK!!!1 I await your apology.
> >
> > What apology? Outlook does NOT do news. Exchange does Public
> >Folders - but that's not an Outlook facility (won't work without Exchange
on
> >the backside).
> >
> > I stand by what I said.
>
> I'm sure you do, and I'm just as certain that you'll continue to deny
> that I read news in OUTLOOK - even if I were to post gifs...

Define "read news". You read postings in your Exchange Server's
public folders. They happen to be news postings that the Exchange Server
imported.

Now, shut that Exchange server down, and attach to a NNTP server.
Oooh - look, there's MSIMN running in the background!

I stand by what I said.

>
> I live in hope, however, that you'll be man enough to concede where
> you are incorrect - as I did regarding the cable/faxing issue.

As soon as you correct your text, I will. But I am NOT incorrect.

Next you'll try to tell me an ADM-3 terminal can "do news". When
it's attached to a Unix box, sure. But not without SOMETHING ELSE to do the
computational portion.

Outlook re: NNTP news is just barely one step above the ADM-3
terminal. It can NOT do NNTP news on its own. It requires a provider of
some sort to handle that. In your case, it's Exchange Server. But if
there's no Exchange Server, the default is to shell to Outlook Express.
Remove OE, and Outlook then says "News? What's news? Never heard of that
stuff ..." in effect.

Try it sometimes.

RwP

Re: Repair windows 2000 pro boot sector?
 

"Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp@techie.com> wrote:

>Howdy!
>
>"Monsignor Larville Jones MD" <tardspnaker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:kcrnivkngi36ma4kkgna62rr85jnsbn4d0@4ax.com.. .
>> "Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp@techie.com> wrote:
>
> Much snippage ensues ...
>
>> >> Sure about that, are you, Ralph? I have set up a virtual NNTP service
>> >> on my Exchange 2000 box that feeds news directly into the 'internet
>> >> newsgroups' Public Folder in, guess what, yes, OUTLOOK.
>> >
>> > In Exchange. In a public folder.

**** me sideways. You're determined to ignore that news is being read
by users via OUTLOOK. Oh well.

>>
>> No, Ralph. In OUTLOOK. I fire up OUTLOOK. In that instance, OUTLOOK Is
>> the application I use to read news. OUTLOOK Is therefore the
>> news-reader, not Exchange. OUTLOOK may connect to Exchange to retrieve
>> the headers, but by your definition, we TINW aren't using OE, Agent,
>> XNews, etc. to read news, but the NNTP server. This is, quite
>> obviously, horse-pucky.
>
> Huh? Let's see - "I have set up a VIRTUAL NNTP service on my
>EXCHANGE 2000 box."
>
> Exchange is doing the NNTP access.

That isn't up for debate. The news client is OUTLOOK.

>
> Now, you can read news in public folders all day long. But do keep
>up - that's not the same thing as doing news NATIVELY within Outlook.
>
> Now - since they're PUBLIC folders, they're on the EXCHANGE server.
>Again, the Outlook box isn't doing news .. the Exchange server is, and is
>presenting it in a format that Outlook can handle.

Therefore OUTLOOK is used to read news.

>
> Try shutting Exchange down and see how far your "public folders" run
>...
>
>>
>> >
>> > Now, without Exchange?
>> >
>> > No, Outlook needs Outlook Express to do NNTP mail. Or some other
>> >provider.
>>
>> 'NNTP mail'? 'provider'? Wtf?
>
> NNTP news feed is through your Exchange server, ne? Others, without
>Exchange, use Outlook Express as the NNTP agent.
>
> Without either, you get no NNTP service.
>
> Therefore no news.

What has that to do with 'NNTP mail' (whatever that is)?

>
>>
>> >
>> > "Public Folders" are NOT the same thing.
>> >
>> > As anyone who's actually WORKED with an honest-to-$DEITY news
>server
>> >well knows ...
>>
>> I work with one on a daily basis, Ralph. It is, however, OUTLOOK that
>> is executed on the client-side to read news. My users don't have
>> exchange installed on their workstations, yet they can read the
>> newsgroups I deign to allow them access to - via their installations
>> of OUTLOOK.
>
> Reading out of the Exchange Server's public folders.
>
> My, is there a reading comprehension problem here? The EXCHANGE
>server is doing the news feed. The OUTLOOK client can't do **** without
>SOMETHING to provice the NNTP service for it. Be it Outlook Express (what
>mere mortals are stuck with) or Exchange (what you're using). But shut that
>server off, remove all instances of MSIMN.* from your system, and see how
>much news you can get.
>
>>
>> Can you see a pattern developing here?
>
> Sure. I don't think YOU do - you keep driving my point home, and
>then wanting to argue with me.
>
>>
>> >
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > I suggest YOU research sometimes before you blast others.
>> >>
>> >> Ditto. SPNAK!!!1 I await your apology.
>> >
>> > What apology? Outlook does NOT do news. Exchange does Public
>> >Folders - but that's not an Outlook facility (won't work without Exchange
>on
>> >the backside).
>> >
>> > I stand by what I said.
>>
>> I'm sure you do, and I'm just as certain that you'll continue to deny
>> that I read news in OUTLOOK - even if I were to post gifs...
>
> Define "read news". You read postings in your Exchange Server's
>public folders. They happen to be news postings that the Exchange Server
>imported.
>
> Now, shut that Exchange server down, and attach to a NNTP server.
>Oooh - look, there's MSIMN running in the background!
>
> I stand by what I said.
>
>>
>> I live in hope, however, that you'll be man enough to concede where
>> you are incorrect - as I did regarding the cable/faxing issue.
>
> As soon as you correct your text, I will. But I am NOT incorrect.
>
> Next you'll try to tell me an ADM-3 terminal can "do news". When
>it's attached to a Unix box, sure. But not without SOMETHING ELSE to do the
>computational portion.
>
> Outlook re: NNTP news is just barely one step above the ADM-3
>terminal. It can NOT do NNTP news on its own. It requires a provider of
>some sort to handle that. In your case, it's Exchange Server. But if
>there's no Exchange Server, the default is to shell to Outlook Express.
>Remove OE, and Outlook then says "News? What's news? Never heard of that
>stuff ..." in effect.
>
> Try it sometimes.
>
> RwP
>

Listen up, Ralph. You said that I was posting bogus information when I
stated that I read news in OUTLOOK. You said that I used Outlook
Express, and that I should check what I post prior to hitting send.
You can attempt to obfuscate the facts as much as you want, but the
fact remains that I can read news in OUTLOOK.

Simple, really. The SPNAK remains. ;o)

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