Help. Lost Win2k and all Data when installing Red Hat 7.1.
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Sounds to me it would take your hard drive, rewrite it with its own partitions and install Linux. Windows is Gone....
Tip: When installing Linux, and you want a dual boot, you always want to customize the install. The others will erase and create what it needs fit to install Linux, like server or workstation... etc.
Everything.....is gone, unless you made backups. Which it doesn't sound as if you did. oops.... We all make mistakes though. Trust me, I have my share of them myself.
Look at it this way though, you have a kick a** OS now instead of Windows.
I have had a similar experience, but was able to recover by booting to DOS with a startup floppy and running 'fdisk /mbr', which installed a clean MBR.
Then, I was able to see my Windows stuff again.
I guess I would look at the fdisk info and make sure that there is no vfat, fat or multifat stuff left.
If you don't take the right steps, Linux will change your Master Boot Record so that Linux is the OS that gets booted.
You might try typing "windows" when the "linux" prompt shows up on your screen during the boot process.
Hope this helps -- I'm a linux newbie.
Last edited by rdaves@earthlink.net; 06-28-2001 at 09:33 PM.
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