On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now.... > > I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not > TOUCH my corp drive. > > I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was > done to the internal hard drive... > > Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the > hard drive. > > Now what? Can I rescue things? > > I am leaving for my flight in a couple hours to Dublin for IETF > meeting. I have to get this working on my own. > > I hope there is another copy of the old boot loader somewhere on that > system and some way to copy it????? ---- Nope whose bootloader was it? Microsoft? You can re-install by booting installation CD and going to recovery console and running 'fixmbr' Craig