Ok, I've been running a dual boot with two seperate hard drives. One boots to XP, and the other boots to Redhat 9. I use whatever boot manager bundled with Redhat.
I decided that I never use the linux drive, so wanted to reclaim it for another partioion on the XP side of things. Well I reformatted the linux hard drive, and didn't even think about the boot manager. When I restarted my computer, it won't boot at all, and in fact will not even recognize my hard drive that has XP on it. It shows that there is a drive, but shows 0 space on it and no specs for it. I tried to reinstall windows, but it doesn't recognize the hard drive and then kicks me out of install. Did I screw up the master boot record? I don't really care if I lose the info on the disc, I just want to be able to use it again. Please advise. Thanks.
I decided that I never use the linux drive, so wanted to reclaim it for another partioion on the XP side of things. Well I reformatted the linux hard drive, and didn't even think about the boot manager. When I restarted my computer, it won't boot at all, and in fact will not even recognize my hard drive that has XP on it. It shows that there is a drive, but shows 0 space on it and no specs for it. I tried to reinstall windows, but it doesn't recognize the hard drive and then kicks me out of install. Did I screw up the master boot record? I don't really care if I lose the info on the disc, I just want to be able to use it again. Please advise. Thanks.