On 2005-06-01, Rick Morris <wmorris@neb.rr.com> wrote:

> I tried to install Slackware on another partition on my Toshiba laptop. XP
> was on the other partition. Neither Windows or Slack would boot after that
> so I ran the restore DVD and figured I'd start over. Somehow The boot loader
> (GRUB) did not get erased when the restore DVD was supposedly wiping out all
> the other data on the disk. Now I can't boot windows. Is there a prompt
> for GRUB to load windows?? This is not a happy thing since no installable
> Linux version recognizes my wireless set up and I relied on Windoze to
> download and burn Linux ISOs. Anybody have a suggestion?

Your restore disk might have left the boot sector alone because you
want to leave intact any disk managers that must be used to access a
hard disk. My experience with laptop restore CDs has been that they
wipe out everything. The standard Slackware installation installs the
lilo boot manager. How did you get grub?

You can solve the boot sector problem in several ways. If you can
run the Windows recovery console you can repair the boot sector with
it. If you can boot an MS-DOS startup floppy disk, running "fdisk /mbr"
might solve your problem. You can start Slackware using a bootable CD
or a bootable floppy and see what "lilo -u" (assuming you really have
lilo) or the grub restore master boot record procedure will do for you
(assuming you really have grub).