Re: Lost my ability to boot Windoze

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Nov 24, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Compaq laptop (Presario 1825 w/ 12Gb. disk) on which I
> have been running Mandrake 7.1, and Windows 98 for some months.
> 
> All of a sudden, when I select Windows from the Grub menu, I get
> the message Invalid system disk, but Linux still boots OK.
> 
> The Windows files seem to all still be there via /mnt/win.
> 
> Is there some way I can rewrite a sector, or some other way to
> restore the booting capability without re-installing Windows?

You can boot from a window rescue disk.  If you don't see the C: drive
anymore, you probably corrupted your partition table (or you have just
hidden the windows partition).  You can use linux's fdisk program to
fix it.

Otherwise invoke "sys c:" from the rescue disk.  This should restore
the windows boot sector, as well as the windows boot files.

  Jochen