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Re: Cannot access Windows after grub-install /dev/hda1


From: Jan Z.
Subject: Re: Cannot access Windows after grub-install /dev/hda1
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:15:35 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ian Monroe wrote:

> I was stupid and typed 'grub-install /dev/hda1' instead of 'grub-install
> /dev/hda' on my Debian/Windows 98 machine. Windows is on hda, Debian on
> hdb.

You wiped out part of the first sector on the
FAT-partition and DOS/Win needs this sector. Perhaps try
fsck.vfat to fix this (I don't know if fsck.vfat can
fix this), but before you try I suggest to backup your
FAT-partition.

Jan





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