[ILUG] fixing windows

[ger]

John

Can you post your lilo.conf

What version of windows as older versions are very picky about where their 
boot sector is loaded.

Regards Ger

At 09:06 02/02/05 +0000, John Looney wrote:

>  I upgraded the disk in my home PC a few weeks back. I made partitions
>the same size as the old ones, then ran "dd if=/dev/olddisk
>of=/dev/newdisk" for each of them. A little messing with lilo.conf, and
>linux started booting up again.
>
>  However, I can't get windows booting. I was warned that it could be
>because I didn't have a /boot partition last time (windows was hda1,
>linux / was hda2 - new disk has windows hda2, linux /boot hda1).
>
>So, I deleted my new windows partition and my boot partition, and
>recreated them so that even though /boot still started at cylinder 1, it
>was hda2, and windows was hda1 again.
>
>  However, that's not booting either. I get nothing when I try and boot
>it - not even a broken windows bootloader. I still have the old disk
>hanging around, as I expected this to happen...any ideas how I fix it?
>
>John