Craig White wrote: > 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' > Yes. XP. But with the corp encrypted bootloader.... No install CD. Well I do have an XP install CD here. Also Ghost 9.0 that has some sort of bootloader fixer? I seem to recall that there are two copies of either the bootloader or partition table, one as a backup? But which is it? > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >