Weired help request

[Murry Shohat]

Yeah, Andru -- I will need mucho lucko. On idea 1, I did this and the 
rescue mode wanted a diskette that apparently should have been prepared 
during the first W2K install. Absent the diskette, abort was the only 
option.

Idea 2 not needed because idea 3 worked.

Thanks for the ribbing,

Murry
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Andru Luvisi wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Murry Shohat wrote:
>[snip]
>  
>
>>I need to restore a Vaio notebook to pure W2K operation. It had been a
>>dual boot machine. When I simply loaded the CD and tried to perform a
>>full install, including an NTSF format of Drive C, a weird thing
>>happened. At the reboot phase, LIL- comes up and the system hangs.
>>
>>How can LIL- come up when the drive has been reformated under NTSF? And,
>>how can I get out of this endless loop?
>>    
>>
>
>Idea 1:
>
>When you boot the W2K install disk, it should give you a chance to press
>"R" to enter rescue mode.  Have it verify and "repair" the master boot
>record.
>
>Idea 2:
>
>Boot a Linux rescue disk, get to a shell, and type:
>  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<hard drive> bs=1024 count=1024
>
>This will clobber your MBR and then some.  Run the install again.  When
>Windows doesn't see a valid MBR it should install one.
>
>Idea 3: (already mentioned)
>
>Boot DOS and run "FDISK/MBR".
>
>Best of luck (You'll be needing it without Linux!),
>Andru
>  
>

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