"kawet" <audevdw@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Roby,

Thanks very much for your help! I actually would like to get rid of
that menu as I would like to delete my Me and Linux to get some place
back on the harddrive as I never use those 2! So your option to "to put
XP's boot thingy back in the mbr and have it provide the boot menu"
would be GREAT! Can anybody help with that?
Thanks a lot!!!
kawet

You need to do the following running as the administrator.

Boot XP with your floppy. put in your XP CD. Close the auto run menu. go
to the command prompt and type X:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons.

See if it installs. If it does, reboot normally and see if your boot thingy
is repaired.

If it is not repaired, boot from the XP CD. proceed as if going to install,
then choose the option to repair (R) when it appears. choose Repair Console
as the method of repair. when it comes up, at the prompt, type fixmbr

If that doesn't do it, boot the CD as before. this time type fixboot.

If that doesn't do it (it should) do a repair installation (inplace upgrade:
Start the install process and tell it you want to upgrade and pick the drive
XP is on) of XP. that should save your settings and fix the boot problem.

If nothing works, go to google and type fix mbr. Read. then type fix boot.
read.

Google is your friend.






Roby a écrit :
> Ah, the infamous "SMBK Bad!" message. Yes, that's from Smart Boot
> Manager.
> Apparently, it was installed on the master boot record of your hard drive,
> and the menu is SMB asking which boot loader you wish to load.
>
> Linux usually boots from either grub or lilo ... you most likely have one
> of these already in your linux install. Either can put up a boot menu
> that allows you to boot a selected o/s. For sure, the list includes
> linux, ME, DOS ... and probably XP as well. So one option is to install
> grub or lilo in the mbr and use it. The other option is to put XP's
> boot thingy back in the mbr and have it provide the boot menu. I don't
> do windows, but I'm sure there are others here who can help with this
> option. Option 3: download SBM and re-install it on the hard drive to
> restore things as they were before you broke the SMBK.
>
> So how would you like to proceed?
>
> Roby