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Rescue disk by Jhrono on 12-30-2004 at 09:19 PM
Hi...can anyone get me a windows 98 (first and second edition ) rescue disk?i need it for a old computer that has bpoth windows and linuz installed so i need that to start in the dos to format it or get in windows(cause it automatticly starts in linux...
RE: Rescue disk by RaceProUK on 12-30-2004 at 11:12 PM
You shouldn't need to format to get Windows back. All you need to do is add a Windows entry to the config file for the bootloader.
For GRUB, the file is /etc/grub.conf (symlink to /boot/grub.conf IIRC).
For LILO, I'm not so sure, but it's probably in /boot.
Remember to get root permissions!