If for some reason you find the need to get back to your Windows XP bootloader instead of the one installed by your Linux distro, simply follow these instructions:
1. Boot up with your Windows XP disc.
2. Select the option Recovery Console.
3. At the prompt, type "fdisk /mbr" (without the quotes of course)
4. Restart your computer.
Edited with correct info from the following posts...
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| Post #1 Mar 3 2005, 23:26 | |
Neowinian ULTRAKILL   Group:  VeteranPosts: 12,485 Joined: 7-February 03 From: -?- Member No.: 22,586 
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| Post #2 Mar 4 2005, 03:02 | |
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Neowinian ULTRAKILL Group: VeteranPosts: 12,485 Joined: 7-February 03 From: -?- Member No.: 22,586
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Jeez, leave it to me to have a typo in my very first HOW TO. Mark, fix that would ya?
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| Post #3 Mar 4 2005, 03:21 | |
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Neowinian DOMINATING  Group: Registered Posts: 8,916 Joined: 16-April 03 Member No.: 26,264
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For me and some others you might need to type "fdisk /mbr" instead of "fixmbr"
just thought I'd add that before people start saying it doesn't work |
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| Post #4 Mar 4 2005, 03:25 | |
Neowinian Super Cool  Group: Registered Posts: 19,195 Joined: 9-March 03 Member No.: 23,147
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Thanks for the info
 This might come in handy
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| Post #5 Mar 4 2005, 03:33 | |
Resident Fanatic  Group: Registered Posts: 538 Joined: 29-June 04 From: MCAS New River, NC Member No.: 60,759
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Which if you still need linux you better have a boot disk. you can also type "fixboot" (without the quotes) to get it fixed.
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| Post #6 Mar 4 2005, 03:34 | |
Neowinian³  Group: Registered Posts: 270 Joined: 10-June 04 From: Montreal,Quebec Member No.: 58,582
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is there a way to recover the winlogin.exe
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| Post #7 Mar 4 2005, 04:00 | |
We have too much to live with and too little to live for.  Group: Registered Posts: 3,810 Joined: 15-April 02 From: CO Springs Member No.: 11,680
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QUOTE(MR_Candyman @ Mar 3 2005, 22:21) For me and some others you might need to type "fdisk /mbr" instead of "fixmbr" just thought I'd add that before people start saying it doesn't work [right][snapback]585566261[/snapback][/right] Hahaha, you beat me to it! Yeah, Fixmbr and Fixboot both don't work. I know, I've tried several times. All they do is jack up the NTLoader. This post has been edited by Jstphish: Mar 4 2005, 04:09 |
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| Post #8 Mar 4 2005, 04:06 | |
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Nice how to, might be useful one day.
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| Post #9 Mar 4 2005, 04:11 | |
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Neowinian²  Group: Registered Posts: 229 Joined: 19-October 04 Member No.: 76,885
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QUOTE(acerr @ Mar 3 2005, 22:34) is there a way to recover the winlogin.exe [right][snapback]585566297[/snapback][/right] Of course there is  Boot into the recovery console and use this command.expand d:\i386\winlogon.ex_ c:\windows\system32\winlogon.exe D: = drive Xp cd is in C: = drive Xp is installed on This post has been edited by Mr. Dick C. Normous: Mar 4 2005, 04:17 |
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| Post #10 Mar 4 2005, 19:36 | |
Linux noob since Red Hat 5.1  Group: VeteranPosts: 23,147 Joined: 2-October 03 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 36,818
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QUOTE(Armeck @ Mar 3 2005, 22:02) Jeez, leave it to me to have a typo in my very first HOW TO. Mark, fix that would ya? [right][snapback]585566188[/snapback][/right] Not a problem. Done. You should always be able to go back and edit your first post. All members are able to do this. At least that is how I understand it to work.  And, by the way, thanks for the quick write-up! This gets asked an awful lot. |
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| Post #11 Mar 4 2005, 20:31 | |
Neowinian² Group: Registered Posts: 115 Joined: 29-December 03 From: Canada Member No.: 43,892
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What if you do not have an XP cd, just recovery discs? Are you out of luck?
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Linux noob since Red Hat 5.1 Group: VeteranPosts: 23,147 Joined: 2-October 03 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 36,818
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QUOTE(butterflychoke @ Mar 4 2005, 15:31) What if you do not have an XP cd, just recovery discs? Are you out of luck? [right][snapback]585569154[/snapback][/right] I would think that borrowing a friend's XP CD would be a good solution. |
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| Post #13 Mar 5 2005, 03:40 | |
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Neowinian DOMINATING Group: Registered Posts: 8,916 Joined: 16-April 03 Member No.: 26,264
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I like using the windows 98/me boot discs the best. You can freely download them from the net
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| Post #14 Mar 22 2005, 23:36 | |
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QUOTE(Jstphish @ Mar 4 2005, 04:00) Hahaha, you beat me to it! Yeah, Fixmbr and Fixboot both don't work. I know, I've tried several times. All they do is jack up the NTLoader. [right][snapback]585566400[/snapback][/right] Agreed with that. It always mess with the NTLoader.....arghhhhhh...gotta hate windows. |
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| Post #15 Mar 25 2005, 22:53 | |
Resident Fanatic Group: Registered Posts: 572 Joined: 8-December 04 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 85,010
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fdisk /mbr
work well too
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