I don't know what Tom's root boot does, but if it wrote to the boot
sector on your hard drive, you could clean it up by booting into dos
with a floppy and entering the command
fdisk /mbr
The first thing I would do is boot off of a floppy into dos and see if
you can access your hard drive. If it looks like the windows files are
all still there, then you may want to run fdisk and just look to see
that the hard drive partition is set to be active (bootable). Don't
change anything there unless there is no active partition. You need one
so you can boot off of your hard drive.
If those two things look alright, I would do the fdisk /mbr command, and
then try booting off of the hard drive again.
scott
pleasemail@att.net wrote:
>
> I attended the Sat. Dunedin meeting, and wanted to
> find a way to install linux on my laptop (but still
> keep my windows system until I learned some linux).
>
> Several members suggested I download Toms root boot at
> www.toms.net/rb , which I understood would run linux
> from a floppy on my laptop without removing my windows
> system. Alas, I did download it and ran the floppy,
> but now I cannot boot to windows , even with the floppy
> removed. Does anyone have a suggestion how I can get
> my windows system running again on my laptop?
> Thanks, R. Hartley 727-461-4707
> pleasemail@att.net
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