hello everyone.
I'm wondering if someone can help me please. Basically, I can't boot my system at all anymore and I think I may have made a huge mistake. I'll tell you what I've done and then see what I can do.
Basically I have 2 hard drives - one 200gb (of which 137gb is visible) and one 160gb (about 150 visible) both sata, not running in raid. I've been using Norton partition magic and my partitions looked something like this:
I don't use fedora core 4 much at all, but the other day I decided to see something on it. I have the GRUB stage loader thing so basically if I press a key at one select point in my boot up I can select whether to go into XP or FC4. Anyway, FC4 wouldn't load so I just thought I would delete it and install FC5 on the other drive in the unallocated space. So I deleted that partition and extended the WinXP partition across the entire drive so I had something like this:
Now when I boot up my PC I get a small message and then I'm thrown into a dos-style command line where the cursor thing is like: grub2> . Pressing tab brings up some stuff and I can also write "help" but it doesn't seem to do much.
I would just reinstall XP but my disc is at university and I'm not there for another week. I tried using my Dad's XPME disc to do a temporary install so at least I could still see my files but it wouldn't create a partition in the unallocated space for me to do this. I'm downloading the FC5 iso atm but I think because there is no unallocated space on my 200gb drive i might get a bit stuck.
any help would be great thanks.
I'm wondering if someone can help me please. Basically, I can't boot my system at all anymore and I think I may have made a huge mistake. I'll tell you what I've done and then see what I can do.
Basically I have 2 hard drives - one 200gb (of which 137gb is visible) and one 160gb (about 150 visible) both sata, not running in raid. I've been using Norton partition magic and my partitions looked something like this:
I don't use fedora core 4 much at all, but the other day I decided to see something on it. I have the GRUB stage loader thing so basically if I press a key at one select point in my boot up I can select whether to go into XP or FC4. Anyway, FC4 wouldn't load so I just thought I would delete it and install FC5 on the other drive in the unallocated space. So I deleted that partition and extended the WinXP partition across the entire drive so I had something like this:
Now when I boot up my PC I get a small message and then I'm thrown into a dos-style command line where the cursor thing is like: grub2> . Pressing tab brings up some stuff and I can also write "help" but it doesn't seem to do much.
I would just reinstall XP but my disc is at university and I'm not there for another week. I tried using my Dad's XPME disc to do a temporary install so at least I could still see my files but it wouldn't create a partition in the unallocated space for me to do this. I'm downloading the FC5 iso atm but I think because there is no unallocated space on my 200gb drive i might get a bit stuck.
any help would be great thanks.
But, i'd installed Windows Recovery Console first, i.e. as a boot option.